winter past

It was sunset, the sun was setting, and the golden light embraced everything. Xiaoman walked on the sidewalk stepping on the shadows of trees all over the ground. From time to time, someone shouted "Let me go, let me go" and drove a battery car past him. The roads in Baixiang District are very narrow, with many street trees and green belts. Those who drive battery cars and bicycles often occupy the sidewalks; there are row upon row of delis and snack bars on the side of the road, and those who take and deliver food are lined up at the door Teams, fighting on the palm-sized screen with their mobile phones; the old exhaust fan kept blowing the smell of oily smoke from the back kitchen onto the road; At the entrance, the bus braked suddenly and stopped on the platform, with blue-purple smoke blowing out from the two thick exhaust pipes.The old man holding the child covered the child's mouth and nose to avoid the smoke.

"hurry up!"

“Go home and eat!”

"What's so good about Coke?"

Xiao Man lowered his head and drank Coke, trying to avoid people, walking close to the wall on the side of the road, sometimes broke into the queue for eating, he lowered his head even lower, and walked quickly through.The sky was getting darker, and the sky was getting softer. Among the people queuing up for dinner, someone raised their mobile phone to take pictures of the clouds.Xiao Man followed him to look, the dusk of this day was very gorgeous and beautiful, and it was far, far away from him.

He looked around again, and before he knew it, he had reached the gate of Yaoting Greenland Community, and he had finished a bottle of Coke.People carrying vegetable baskets or children by the hand came and went frequently. Xiaoman mixed in the crowd and entered the community, and saw a few people in security uniforms leading a woman and two men, both in their 20s, to the gate. come over.The young woman kept swinging her arms, her yellow hair swaying back and forth, she said: "Do you know who I am? Don't touch me! I'll expose you, your Yaoting security guards beat you! What a high-end community, Violence threatens the personal safety of others!"

A younger security guard said: "Everyone is watching, who hit you? Who hit you? You broadcast live in the community, affecting the lives and privacy of residents!"

A man with a camera in his hand pushed the young security guard: "Whose privacy have we affected? People have died here, and the masses still have the right to know. We are protecting the basic rights of citizens!"

The younger security guard blushed and wanted to catch the man with the camera: "That happened ten years ago, the news was reported earlier! The case has already been closed! I warn you, don't do it, do it! Our security guards have the right to fight back!"

The young woman shouted "Okay" loudly, took the lead in applauding, and greeted the passers-by around: "Look, everyone! The security guard beat someone! Take a picture of it! Take a picture of it!"

Some passers-by took out their mobile phones and took pictures of them.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot."

"Look, my arms are all red."

"Don't spout blood! No one has ever touched you!"

A very old security guard came out of the guard room, and a man wearing glasses among the three men and women stood between the security guards and the couple who were still arguing, persuading: "Okay, okay Alright, don't say a word!"

More people stopped and watched, pointing and discussing: "That's them, they went under the 8th building to take a sneak shot."

"Go upstairs?"

"I went up, slipped up, was seen by someone, told the property, and the property notified the security to deal with it."

"Have the people from 604 come back?"

"I don't know, hey, Lao Zhuang, the one in the same building as you, has 604 come back?"

"Did 604 be sold again at the beginning of the year?"

"It's very wicked."

"How much did you sell for? Are they also three bedrooms and two living rooms?"

The three men and women stood at the gate of the community at this moment, the one with the camera was squatting and smoking, and the young woman also lit a cigarette, smoking with her legs shaking, and swiping her phone with one hand.The man with glasses asked the older security guard politely: "Then can we apply for a filming permit with the property management company before filming?"

"The property management company is off work today, so call and ask yourself tomorrow."

"Oh, can I trouble you to give me the property phone number?"

The elderly security guard lifted his chin, raised the flashlight in his hand, and stopped a young man who was driving a delivery car to enter the community, saying, "You can't enter the delivery car! Stop, call the owner, and get down by yourself. "He then went to talk to the delivery man.The rest of the security guards arranged in a row, checked the key cards of everyone who entered the door, and asked about their residences. Those who came to visit relatives and friends had to be picked up by the owner.

The man wearing glasses adjusted his glasses, smiled, called the man and woman who were smoking together, and left.

The crowd of spectators dispersed, and Xiaoman also walked away. He walked through a European-style garden, bypassed a sandy field with some children's amusement facilities, walked through several rockeries, a lotus pond, and stopped at a Under the snow-white flower stand.The roses climbing and growing along the flower stand are blooming, yellow and pink flowers are clustered together, blooming on the top of the flower stand, and they are about to merge with the colorful clouds in the sky.

Someone held up a mobile phone to take pictures of rose flowers, and then the camera lens of the mobile phone slowly moved to the 8 buildings behind the flower stand.Xiaoman coughed, and the man turned his head and ran away.

The children played in the community, sometimes clapping and laughing, sometimes screaming and running wildly.The houses here are not high, and almost all are row houses. There is only a row of apartment buildings behind this flower trellis, and the highest is only 6 floors.

Sitting under the flower stand, Xiaoman raised his eyes and looked up. He counted until he reached the sixth floor, took a hasty look and then looked away.He lit a cigarette and sat for a while covering his stomach.A boy ran over laughing, bumped into his leg, and fell on his back. He glanced at Xiaoman, jumped up laughing, and ran away waving his arms.

Xiaoman's stomach was acidic, and the tip of his nose was also sore. It was dark, and he looked up, and there were lights in several windows on the 8th floor of Building 6.

He went back to Yaochi by car, and went to the toilet to vomit after entering the dance hall.

After a while, someone knocked on the door and asked with great concern, "Detective Xiao, are you alright?"

Xiaoman rinsed his mouth, washed his face with cold water, opened the door, looked at Yin Miaozai who was standing outside the door, and said, "This time you are looking for a cat?"

Yin Miaozai blinked her big eyes: "No, haven't we found the Black Mountain killer yet?"

"Isn't the police looking for it?" Xiaoman lowered his head and lit a cigarette.

"Many people are powerful."

"The police must have more resources than us." Xiaoman said after taking a puff of cigarette.

Yin Miaozai blinked again, her eyes were firm, and her tone was firm: "The deposit is three thousand, if you find someone within three days, I'll give you another three thousand, if you find someone within a week, it's one thousand five thousand."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Yang came over from behind her, holding a stack of papers in his arms, and said to Xiao Man, "Your materials, you put them in the trash can, dried them for you."

Xiaoman scratched her cheek: "Put it in the trash can, then throw it away..."

"Garbage needs to be sorted. Watermelon rinds and paper are not the same." Lu Yang said, "And you are going to help Teacher Yin find someone, isn't this information?" He looked at Yin Miaozai.

Standing under the red light, the two exchanged glances and smiled at each other.

Xiao Man wiped his face, looked at Lu Yang, then at Yin Miaozai, walked out of the toilet, and urged Lu Yang, "Go do your homework."

Lu Yang still looked at Yin Miaozai, and said to her: "Mr. Yin, put that thing on your seat." Then he walked away.

Xiao Man smiled and said, "You guys are quite familiar." He looked at Lu Yang's back, pondered for a while, and said to Yin Miaozai, "You don't need to call me for the deposit, just buy a mobile phone within [-]."

Yin Miaozai also looked at Lu Yang, and said: "This English homework in the attached middle school is too difficult. I never had to write such a thing when I was in school. The social survey report on AIDS is not easy to write."

Xiaoman choked for a moment: "He asked you for counseling?"

Yin Miaozai looked at him: "Let's not talk about this, do you want a mobile phone?" She took out her mobile phone and searched for goods online, "Brand, do you have any requirements for performance? Your mobile phone is broken?"

"Just those brands that young people use nowadays."

The two walked to the deck.Yin Miaozai said: "Detective Xiao, have you read the news? The deceased in 404 was a divorced woman who ran away from home. Her husband raped her. She and her husband divorced. At that time, her stomach was already very big. She originally wanted to induce labor. It turned out that the child was too old and failed to lead. It was probably because of severe prenatal depression. After the divorce, she lived with her parents. On May 5, when her parents came home, they found that she was not at home. In the state of disappearance, when the police called them, they were all broken, and her ex-husband was also particularly broken, and said that they were already discussing remarriage, and he had changed his past."

"The news is so detailed?" Xiaoman saw Sister Fangfang on the dance floor, gave her Sister Xu's bus card, and said pleasantly, "Sister, why didn't I see you this morning?"

Yin Miaozai said enthusiastically: "Now it's no different than ten years ago. There are too many ways to obtain information, but it's okay to read some revelations. It's just nonsense and hype."

"The old man must go with me when he goes to the medical examination. I said you are looking for your daughter or your son. He said, I will give you money, Fangfang, why don't you go with me? What else are you talking about? When you arrive at the hospital, I will be you." old man, you are my old lady."

Xiaoman laughed loudly: "Sister Xu's bus card, please take it back to her."

"A cousin of that girl's elementary school classmate said that the girl joined a suicide group, and it might be suicide."

"Why hasn't Louise come yet? Lao Zhang is just waiting for her to sing "Speechless Ending", right Lao Zhang?"

"Hi Uncle Zhang, I haven't seen you for a long time."

Yin Miaozai tugged Xiaoman: "Are you listening to me?"

Xiao Man and Uncle Zhang shook hands: "Where are you sitting? I'll send you a fruit plate later." He looked back at Yin Miaozai: "Listening, listening, suicide group, right?"

Uncle Zhang pointed to a location, and Xiaoman walked towards the bar.Yin Miaozai followed him, wanting to show him her mobile phone: "Here, chat records also broke out, a WeChat group called 'Imperfect People'."

Xiaoman walked to the bar, where Lu Yang was doing his homework. He packed up his homework, pointed to a small door and said, "Go upstairs and do your homework."

Yin Miaozai sat down in front of the bar, holding her mobile phone in her hand: "Also, did you know? In the 604 case of Yaoting Ten years ago, the deceased was also a pregnant woman, but the fetus of this pregnant woman was not cut out. Unlike this time, it was this case that attracted widespread attention from the outside world, and it was also because of the development of the Internet, the news spread faster, and the Olympic Games were about to be held at that time. Before the Olympics, the police had been cracking down hard, but it turned out that such a big incident happened, and everyone was very concerned.

"You said that the Aegean killer hadn't stopped killing in ten years, but he couldn't be caught. In 08, the case was solved within a month. No wonder some people said that the wrong person was mistaken back then, and the real murderer was someone else. It may be Because Dai Rou was only transferred to Qingshi ten years ago, she used to be a famous goddess detective in Tiancheng..."

Lu Yang didn't move, he was still sitting behind the bar, he asked Xiaoman, "You want to investigate serial killers?"

Xiao Man patted his head, grabbed the schoolbag on the ground, and walked to the small door: "Go up and write."

Yin Miaozai knocked twice on the chandelier on the bar: "It's too dark here, Lu Yang, you'll damage your eyes. To be a policeman, your eyesight must be 5.2."

Lu Yang said: "I saw some police officers wearing glasses on TV. I'm not taking the Air Force exam."

"It's not a rigid requirement, but think about it, if you want to be a special policeman, it's so troublesome to wear glasses. If you wear contact lenses, they will fall off. It's so inconvenient to go on missions. Even ordinary policemen, it's also very inconvenient. You Right?"

Lu Yang was silent for a while, took the pencil case and reference books, stuffed them into the schoolbag, took the schoolbag, carried the homework books, got up and went upstairs.Standing at the door, Xiaoman looked up at him and shouted, "What kind of policeman are you? Don't you want to be a diplomat!"

He turned around, smiled at Yin Miaozai, and patted his butt: "Thank you, please eat some fruit."

He took many apples and oranges from the refrigerator and washed them in the sink.Yin Miaozai said: "He said his mother is in jail."

Xiaoman nodded, found a fruit knife, took two large glass dishes, and began to peel the apples.Yin Miaozai said again: "Then when are you going to tell him?"

Xiaoman lowered his eyes and asked, "I'll find someone to analyze those videos and the accounts that posted them later."

Yin Miaozai said softly: "Detective Xiao, you know...his family background, he can't be a policeman or a diplomat..."

Xiao Man peeled an apple and handed it to Yin Miaozai, and said with a smile, "Hey, look, the skin is not broken."

Yin Miaozai didn't pick up the apple, but leaned against the bar and looked at him, her long eyelashes fluttered twice, Xiaoman picked up the peeled apple and took a big bite, looked at the dance floor, and said, "Say, they Could it be a group committing the crime?"

Yin Miaozai knocked on the bar and got excited again: "I thought so too! This Montenegro killer may have committed crimes with the Aegean killer before. The Aegean killer died. His identity has not been revealed. He disappeared for ten years and returned to the rivers and lakes." gone."

On stage, band members in sequined suits adjust their instruments, their bodies glittering.Xiaoman took another bite of the apple, and Yin Miaozai said: "I still feel that the matter of killing people back then was tricky. Think about it, there are so many vicious cases, it is actually very difficult for one person to commit crimes. Alas, why not try the first trial, no How about asking? And there were many cases before that were suspected of being the Aegean killer. It is reasonable to say that he should be arrested and brought back for trial. The policeman was too sloppy back then, could he be a novice? So now there is such a The heinous serial killer is at large. Detective Xiao, have you read the case analysis on the Internet? I think the analysis by a netizen makes sense.

"According to the information released by the police, the Aegean killer has been killing people since 98. However, I think he may have started to torture and kill small animals earlier. Although it was in 08 that he attracted widespread public attention, Everyone suspected that he was responsible for those cases before, and the police did not give a clear explanation, so everyone can only guess, alas, after much deliberation, we still have to blame that rookie policeman, why did he shoot him dead?"

Xiao Man listened, shook his head, and said in a dull voice, "If the Black Mountain killer is really an accomplice and accomplice back then, why did he disappear for ten years?"

"Maybe he has some serious illness? Maybe he went to jail for something else?"

Yin Miaozai knocked on the table a few more times, boom, Xiaoman's heart jumped a few times.He raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his neck.

Yin Miaozai said: "In June 98, in the murder of a woman in Huangguozi Village, the body was embalmed and the internal organs were taken out; in December 6, a single mother and a three-year-old child were murdered at home, and the body was embalmed. , the internal organs were taken out, and it is suspected that the deceased died a month ago, but there was no peculiar smell; in February, March, and May of 00, there were similar cases, all of which were female deceased or teenage girls, and then By 12, look at the description in this report. The embalming technology of the corpses was excellent, and the dead were lifelike. The murderers from 01 to 2 could not be found. According to the characteristics of the corpses and the characteristics of the crime, it is very likely that they were love All the cases committed by the Qinhai killer happened in Xia Tian.

"Moreover, the dead are no longer limited to powerless women or children, adult men, middle-aged men, young couples, all kinds of people. His anti-corrosion methods have also become more sophisticated. Committing a crime in the hot summer, there is a feeling of challenging yourself, isn't it? I suspect that the murderer's physique changed to a certain extent at this time, and he became stronger at that time. He may have entered the funeral home at this time. I have learned more about embalming, by the way, you know that the Aegean killer who was killed worked in the funeral home? Or, he found an accomplice at this time."

The band is playing light dance music.There was no one on the dance floor, and many guests were just sitting on booths cracking melon seeds and smoking.The man stroked the woman's hair, and the woman crossed her legs and shook her calves.

"I don't think the Montenegro killer is a simple imitator as the police think."

Xiaoman blinked and looked at Yin Miaozai: "Dai Rou and the others told you that? They think it's a copycat crime, you don't think so, so you want to find the murderer yourself to prove that the police are wrong?"

Yin Miaozai straightened her long hair, shrunk her shoulders, dodged her eyes, looked down at her phone, and then said quickly: "I've been in the library for a long time, really, I read those old cases reported before, There must be a special relationship between the Montenegro killer and the Aegean killer. Either the Montenegro killer is the real murderer and the Aegean killer who was killed was a scapegoat under the pressure of solving the case, or the two of them once committed a crime together. The corpse in 404 of the Aegean Sea Hotel is an open provocation to the police. He must be a person who needs public attention. Embalming the corpse and placing the corpse in various shapes are all out of arrogance and morbidity His arrogance and show-off mentality, so there must be some compelling reason for him to disappear in the past ten years, otherwise, how could he restrain the urge to kill and show off his skills to the public? I think it is impossible .”

Xiaoman put down the apple in his hand, he felt a little sick again, found a bottle of water, took a few sips, and said, "It's getting late, you should go back and rest first."

Yin Miaozai asked: "What are you going to do next? Go to Montenegro, look for the place where the video was shot? Go look for witnesses or go back to the crime scene?"

Xiaoman looked at her: "Mr. Yin, this is not a game for your boring life, you know that, right?"

"I know." Yin Miaozai also looked at him, and put down a bunch of keys, "You can drive the car, but I must act with you."

Yin Miaozai said again: "I have already asked for leave from school."

"Where's your boyfriend?"

"It's my fiancé..."

"Does he know?"

"He will agree to anything I want to do." Yin Miaozai said, at this moment, her mobile phone rang, she glanced at it, and said: "The mobile phone has been shipped."

Xiao Man fell into deep thought, and after a while, he said, "Wait for me."

He searched the upstairs room for a long time, and found the plastic bag containing glue, scissors and other miscellaneous things that day under a pile of clothes.He carried the bag and knocked on the door of the next room, only a lamp on the desk was turned on, and Lu Yang was doing his homework by the desk.Xiaoman also turned on the overhead light: "Go to bed early, I'll go out for a while, and I'll be back soon."

He went downstairs, found Sister Fangfang, gave her the door key, and went out with Yin Miaozai.Yin Miaozai walked with the wind, and Xiaoman took a long stride. He walked in front and went directly into the Baccarat restaurant next door.

Yin Miaozai followed in, walked to Xiaoman's side, covered her mouth with her hands, carefully observed the people around, and asked Xiaoman in a low voice: "Do you suspect that the Black Mountain killer has come here? How do you know that?"

Xiaoman said, "I haven't eaten dinner yet." He asked Yin Miaozai, "Have you eaten yet?"

Yin Miaozai was taken aback, her stomach reacted before her mouth, and let out a "grunt".

Xiao Man said, "Let's eat something first."