After dinner.

Strong and Blackie each had their own tasks and went to work.

Jiang Yuan, on the other hand, stayed behind with nothing urgent to do.

There were quite a few reinforcements from various places, all operating as a unit at least. The only thing still in short supply was police dogs, and every place was applying for them.

Feeling a bit reluctant to go back to the dormitory to sleep on the big bunk bed, Jiang Yuan went directly to the local market, found a vegetable shop, bought a large amount of vegetables and meat, and asked the shopkeeper about renting a house.

The shopkeeper looked at him uncertainly and said, "Aren't the mining bureau supposed to find you a house for your temporary stay?"

Most of the people still working in this small town have relatives and friends in the government and state-owned enterprises, and the flow of internal information is faster than the spread of adult content on the internet.

Jiang Yuan didn't answer her question and said directly, "I want to rent for two months at market price, and I'll pay an extra month's rent."

Jiang Yuan might not understand other businesses, but when it comes to being a landlord, he knows it well.

Raising the rent by 50% is already a big deal in the rental market, especially using the phrase "pay for three months when staying for two," which feels very satisfying.

After hesitating for a moment, the shopkeeper asked, "What kind of house are you looking for?"

"It should have a yard, be suitable for cooking, and have rooms for sleeping, just a bit tidier," Jiang Yuan said, adding, "The location shouldn't be too far from town, and the price can be flexible."

With the last sentence, the shopkeeper said, "My relatives have an empty old house, well-located and spacious. It was prepared for my parents, but they didn't like the noise in town and didn't want to live there..."

Although Jiang Yuan felt that Zifeng Town was already quite desolate, he still nodded.

"The furniture and appliances inside are all in good condition. The monthly rent is 6000 yuan. Two months' deposit, according to what you said, staying for two months and paying for three, that's a total of five months, which comes to a total of 30,000 yuan..."

The shopkeeper stared at Jiang Yuan, afraid that he would find it too expensive.

In Zifeng Town, few people rent houses, and the rent is unaffordable.

6000 yuan exceeds the monthly income of many people.

"It's okay," Jiang Yuan had no intention of bargaining at all.

Seeing how easy Jiang Yuan was to deal with, the shopkeeper instantly understood, "You're renting the house for a leader, right? Are you going to rent it in your name or in the unit's name? We only have receipts. If you're willing to report a bit more..."

Jiang Yuan casually agreed, went to see the house, found that the living conditions were indeed good, with a yard of over a hundred square meters and good privacy with a separate entrance.

Moreover, this place had a structure similar to a quadrangle courtyard, with two-story small buildings on all four sides. Just the rooms, each with an area of over ten square meters, numbered over a dozen.

And each room had a wooden sign indicating its use: grain storage, noodle room, miscellaneous grain room, cured meat room, entertainment room, mahjong room, poker room...

There weren't many types of furniture, mainly practical.

The mahjong room had a mahjong table and four chairs. The poker room had a regular poker table and six chairs. The noodle room had a folding table and a noodle press...

This yard seemed to be showing Jiang Yuan one thing: Chinese people can live as freely as Americans, as long as our houses are big enough.

There were five bedrooms that could sleep people, each with an area equivalent to a set of rooms in Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou. Jiang Yuan chose one with a bathroom, signed an agreement with the landlord on the spot, and transferred four months' worth of his salary.

Then, Jiang Yuan remembered what the shopkeeper had said and called Huang Qiangming and Liu Wenkai.

The house here was big enough, and if two or three people were willing to share a room, the entire team from Ningtai County could fit in without any problem.

That was Jiang Yuan's suggestion, and buying a few beds would be more comfortable than staying in a guesthouse.

After making the call, Jiang Yuan also sent a message to his father on WeChat to let him know he was safe and described his experience of renting a house.

Jiang's father was very proud and expressed his feelings with a 100,000 yuan transfer.

Jiang Yuan sat in the yard waiting for the others to arrive, and opened the memo to make a note of today's expenses:

Expenses: groceries, 380 yuan; rent, 30,000 yuan (3 months' rent, 2 months' deposit)

Received: 100,000 yuan from Dad (relationship-building expenses)

Daily income: 69,640 yuan.

...

An hour later, Huang Qiangming arrived with the detectives at the small courtyard Jiang Yuan had just rented.

After sleeping on the big bunk bed, this two-story, multi-room house was very satisfying to everyone.

Huang Qiangming asked Jiang Yuan for the lease, then immediately called the office to have the rent and grocery money transferred to Jiang Yuan.

Official business should not be paid for with private funds.

Jiang Yuan readily accepted and went back to the big bedroom he had chosen, revising his daily income to 100,000 yuan.

As a forensic doctor, this should be considered a very high income.

...

The next day.

Xu Taining brought in a water rescue team with over a dozen water pumps and began pumping water out of the mine.The Zifeng Mountain Mining Bureau is a state-owned enterprise, responsible for dealing with abandoned mines within its jurisdiction. The usual approach is to fill or blast them.

Otherwise, if left unattended, the large amount of groundwater stored would cause changes in the geological structure. If mining were to continue, new dangers could arise. For instance, the disaster at a certain ridge mine occurred when the excavation of a new mine intersected with an abandoned one, and the gushing groundwater resulted in multiple fatalities.

As for the idea that some people have, of making detailed markings of the mine tunnels and so on, these are merely stories that exist on paper.

The excavation of mine tunnels is carried out by specialized excavation teams. However, these teams, still blue-collar miners, do not possess the ability to create maps on paper.

Of course, with the current level of internal competition, some high-standard coal mines may have engineers present. But expecting everyone to work diligently and make accurate markings is still a very high standard to uphold.

The mine near the parking lot is beyond the point of any record-keeping.

Of course, the police have no particular demands in this regard either.

Pumping out the water, which is several dozen meters deep, is no easy task.

The mine here isn't really like a well that's been poked straight down.

From the outside, it first appears as a large rectangular pool, with straight edges all around, cut out in appearance, with a cross-section the size of a sports field.

The infiltrating groundwater has been gushing out for years, so the pool is almost overflowing.

More than a dozen pumps surround the large pool, fiercely pumping, and even with the tremendous noise, the water level is dropping slowly.

Upon seeing this, the arriving water rescue team immediately contacted Xu Taining and secured an additional 10 pumps, which were quickly brought in.

Fortunately, the mine narrows as it goes deeper, and at a depth of forty meters, it's estimated to be about the size of a room.

Huang Qiangming brought a few people and set up a tent directly next to the mine.

He also agreed with Jiang Yuan and Xu Taining's judgment. With so many people recruited for auxiliary work, who knows if the criminal would join in.

If anyone committed such a serious crime and found out that an investigative team had arrived in the area, how could they not get involved?

To prevent the mine or equipment from being damaged, Huang Qiangming began arranging for duty personnel after the water rescue team arrived.

The officers from the second team were still idle, so they could investigate around the mine.

At this moment, Jiang Yuan seemed a bit anxious.

The mine in front of him was indeed what he considered the most likely place to hide a body.

Not only because many other places had been searched, but also because it reminded him of the reservoir body-dumping case.

The murderer of the reservoir case, Wang Guoshan, chose to hide the body in the reservoir, certainly because of childhood memories.

At the same time, it could also be because he had a reverse memory that hiding a body in water was safer.

Criminals' behavior patterns are traceable.

Or rather, people's behavior patterns are traceable.

Many people deliberately create unconventional behavior patterns during the crime process, but there are always some patterns that cannot be changed.

Whether it's scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences or generals in the army, there are certain rules to their actions.

Criminal psychology studies this aspect.

Jiang Yuan's understanding of this is very superficial, but seeing the large body of water here, his mind immediately thought of the reservoir.

He is now pinning his hopes on this.

If no body or evidence emerges from the mine, then Liu Jinghui would really be in danger.

It could be a real loss.

Jiang Yuan thought this without saying a word, just silently watching the water level drop.

The next day, the water was finally completely reduced.

The divers began their search underwater.

Jiang Yuan personally cooked a meal for the police dogs using a camping stove.

This time, there was not only Strong's portion but also Heizi's.

Heizi ate with such excitement. If not for its remaining rationality, it would probably have laid down in front of Jiang Yuan, belly up.

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Strong was a little unhappy, but after Li Li's soothing, he obediently finished his meal.

By the afternoon, the water level had dropped below 8 meters, and Xu Taining couldn't help but come over to look.

Amidst the roaring of the pumps, large chunks of concrete and old trash appeared at the mine.

To Jiang Yuan, an outsider, this place looked like the mining bureau's illegal landfill.

But the thing everyone was more eager to find had not yet surfaced.

"Keep digging down," Huang Qiangming suggested to Xu Taining without waiting for Jiang Yuan's feedback.

Having come this far, it was impossible not to continue digging.

The leaders of the Mining Bureau silently arranged for several vehicles from their department to be brought up.

Also coming to help were several miners from the Mining Bureau.

Together, they moved the concrete blocks from the bottom, and after moving a couple, a smell began to waft up.

The two police dogs hadn't even had a chance to enter the fray before they started barking.

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