winter past

Zhao You drove the car, and when he got in the car, he asked Xiao Man, "Did you find anything at 5, Building 304, Qingshui Garden?"

Sitting in the passenger seat, Xiao Man said, "Will Dai Rou have any objections when you communicate with me about the 304 case?"

Zhao Youdao: "I have found a dead end now. Our captain said that we need a dead horse to be a living horse doctor." He glanced at Xiaoman, full of sincerity: "I know that you found the Aegean killer ten years ago, you I must be very familiar with his modus operandi and style of conduct. Listening to what Dai Rou said just now, she actually wanted to discuss these cases with you, but this time a death order was issued from above, and the entire task force was silent. Don't leak any news, it's a lesson learned from the past, you also know that the last time you investigated the case, there was something wrong with someone's word of mouth..."

Speaking of this, Zhao You paused, Xiao Man glanced at him, and found that he was looking at him again, Xiao Man responded vaguely and nodded slightly.Zhao You also moved his chin, and continued: "She is the leader of the special case team again, so she must not take the lead in violating discipline. To tell you the truth, I will be transferred from criminal investigation next month." At the red light , Zhao You stopped the car, turned his head and smiled at Xiaoman, with a modest smile: "It shouldn't be a big problem for me to ask you for advice. You used to be a criminal investigator. I think, what did I say to you? If it spreads out, you should be very clear about the consequences of public opinion, so you don’t want to say anything, right?”

Xiaoman thought for a while and said, "Then let me ask you something first."

"Is it what you said just now that you need my help?"

"Forget it." Xiaoman nodded.

"Okay, you can ask, you know everything." Zhao You said bluntly.The green light came on and he continued driving.His car drives very steadily.

Xiao Man said: "Who found the corpse in Qingshui Garden 304? How did you find it?"

"I found out, I think their house is a bit strange."

"strangeness?"

"The clothes on the balcony have been hanging outside and no one has collected them. In this weather, the wet clothes are hung out for less than half a day before drying." Zhao You said, "And the curtains are drawn in the morning, and they are still drawn in the afternoon and evening. , The next day, in the afternoon, the clothes were still hanging there, and the curtains were still drawn."

Xiao Man responded, and said: "That's a little strange. If you go out and don't go home for two days, you will definitely take the things hanging on the balcony into the house before you go out." He asked: "The tree on the side of Building 5 Locust tree, has any child climbed the tree and fell from the tree recently?"

Zhao You said: "No, but I suspect that an adult fell from the tree."

"grown ups?"

"On the morning of June 6, someone called the police. A teacher suspected that the student was missing. He found her home, which is 8, Building 5, Qingshui Garden. When he arrived at the door, he smelled a foul smell, so he called the police. The police station asked the fire department to open the door and found found the bodies of a mother and daughter, each of them died in their respective bedrooms, the scene was suspected of a burglary, and the time between the deaths was around the early morning of June 604."

Xiaoman looked at him: "You don't think the person who suspected the burglary climbed down the stairs, climbed to the third floor and fell off the tree?"

He said, "The Zhang Li you mentioned is one of the two victims?"

It was indeed almost morning now.

Zhao You said, "Let's talk about it when we get to the scene."

Xiaoman said again: "Then what did you mean by pulling the curtains back and forth?"

"You went to 304, did you see the curtains in the living room?" Zhao You asked.

"I just went around the house, and before I studied it carefully, I was dodged by your witnesses."

Zhao You smiled, and Xiao Man asked, "Is there anything missing in the refrigerator?"

"refrigerator?"

"Is there anything missing in the refrigerator of the old couple in 304? Rice noodles at home, etc., have their children visited the scene and found something missing?"

Zhao You was silenced by the question, and Guang blinked at Xiaoman.Xiao Man eagerly urged him to answer: "Yes or no, let me give you an accurate answer."

Zhao You seemed puzzled: "Is this... very important?"

Xiao Man felt a little strange now, grabbed the seat belt and asked Zhao You: "Didn't Dai Rou tell you? Impossible, one of the characteristics of Lin Midong's crimes is..." He cleared his throat and looked at the front Malu, "That is, he would eat at the victim's house. The victim's house only had dry food, such as biscuits and bread, and he would eat dry food. If the victim's house had rice and vegetables, he would cook for himself."

Zhao You thought for a while, and said, "It must take a long time to embalm the corpse and dress up the corpse, and to clean up the scene is all physical work."

"Clean up the scene?" Xiaoman's lips suddenly became dry, his throat was dry, his hands clenched the seat belt even tighter, his brows were also tightly frowned, and his muscles in his hands and feet were stiff: "You mean he is working?" It's reasonable to eat something when you're hungry, isn't it human?"

Zhao You said: "If you understand it from his standpoint, it is indeed reasonable. To others, it is a crime scene, but to him, it may just be a..."

Xiaoman looked at Zhao You, his car was still driving very steadily, his expression was relaxed, and after thinking for a moment, he thought of how to continue: "A place where he is very relaxed and comfortable, for example, just treat him as a A person who makes models as a hobby, then his crime scene in our mouth is actually like a room dedicated to making models in his own home."

Xiao Man patted Zhao You: "Show me your police officer ID."

Zhao You turned on the light, parked the car on the side of the road, and obediently took out his police officer's card and handed it to Xiaoman, looking at him seriously.Xiaoman didn't answer, smiled, patted him again, leaned on the car seat, shook his legs, moved his wrists, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It's a good thing you became a criminal policeman, otherwise I would really be a criminal for Qingshi." Worry about social security." He pointed to the car window: "Mind if I smoke a cigarette?"

"I don't mind." Zhao You turned off the air conditioner, drove the car on the road again, Xiaoman opened the window, lit a cigarette, and smoked.Zhao You opened the front and rear windows of the car, and the wind howled, whether it was warm or damp, and it blew onto Xiao Man's body, and he stuck to it and did not leave.Xiaoman touched his neck and held his long hair in his hands.

"Do you want a rubber band?" Zhao You asked, and said, "It's in the glove box."

Xiao Man opened the glove box and took out a simple pistol made of wooden sticks and rubber bands. Those wooden tubes looked like popsicle sticks.He removed the rubber band on it, tied up his hair, held up the gun and asked Zhao You, "You did it?"

Zhao You said: "The last time I handled a case, I had to keep an eye on it. I really had nothing to do..."

"Isn't stalking just staring, do you still have time to do this?"

Zhao You said softly: "With a partner, it's quite boring..."

"What did you eat?"

"what?"

"Ice lolly."

"What I eat... I eat, wash, and make it now. I washed it many times, and I won another one twice." Zhao You explained in a straightforward manner, "Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle..."

With a cigarette in his mouth, Xiao Man held the pistol out of the car and raised the gun in a dignified way, took aim, and started playing, he was very happy: "I see, you didn't transfer out, it's because your leaders don't like you not doing your job properly, I found an excuse to fire you, let me guess, transfer you to the file room or go to the police academy to sit in the office?"

Zhao You still spoke softly: "The Political Department."

Xiao Man was stunned for a moment, looked back at Zhao You, stuffed the popsicle pistol into the glove box, and patted him hard: "Xiao Zhao, yes! Who in your family is also in the city bureau?"

Zhao You scratched his cheek, pointed to the front and said, "Here we are."

Xiaoman just finished smoking his cigarette, they parked the car at the gate of Qingshui Garden and got out of the car.

There were still the two security guards in the guard room. Seeing Xiao Man and Zhao You walking into the community together, both of them were stunned.Zhao You went up to say hello, and said politely: "Go to Building 5, which one of you is free to open the electronic door downstairs?"

A security guard showed them the way with a key and a flashlight. When they reached the fifth building, Xiaoman looked up. The security guard opened the electronic door. He and Zhao You went in. The security guard was still staring at them outside the door.The two went up the stairs, but they couldn't see the security guard. Xiaoman asked Zhao You, "5 just doesn't have security windows, the one on the top floor, right?"

"Up is a terrace." Zhao You said.

"The burglar was a derrick before?"

Zhao You said: "The suspect did have experience working on construction sites before."

"Already caught?"

"Are you talking about the suspect in 604?" Zhao You said, "The suspect is dead."

"Dead?" Xiao Man was startled, "How did he die? His fingerprints, DNA on the murder weapon? Is there any other evidence to infer that he is a suspect?" He flashed his spirit, "The Zhang Li you mentioned is 604 suspect?"

Zhao You pointed upstairs: "The 604 case is a bit complicated..."

Xiaoman pondered: "604 is burglary and homicide, so it shouldn't be your special case team that is investigating it? What does it have to do with these cases that your special case team is investigating? Are you so concerned?"

While talking, the two had already reached the third floor. Zhao You took out a bunch of master keys and walked to the door of 304 to open the door. However, Xiao Man became more and more confused: "If Zhang Li is a suspect in the robbery of 604, do you suspect that he is He fell down from the position on the third floor... and you said that it was almost time for him to be killed, and you brought me back to 304, and you asked me if the Aegean killer was watched when he killed or disposed of the body Now, whether he will kill that person, you don't doubt..."

The door was unlocked, Zhao You pushed the door open and went in, he took off his shoes at the door, turned around and waved for Xiao Man to come in quickly.Xiao Man followed, closed the door, and took off his shoes. Zhao You looked at the room with his mobile phone, pointed to the curtains in the living room, and said, "My suspicion is that when Zhang Li walked down the water pipe from the sixth floor to the third floor, , I saw the person who killed Lao Jiang and his wife, I am not sure what Zhang Li saw at that time, the scene may be very unreasonable and terrifying..."

Zhao You walked to the coffee table while talking, and the light behind the mobile phone hit the balcony: "Zhang Li was frightened by what he saw, he couldn't control the center of gravity of his body when he was frightened, and he leaned back in a hurry. I caught that locust tree..."

The bright light shone on the big locust tree outside the residential building again, the leaves shook, and the gaps in the broken branches gently bumped into each other.

"He broke several branches, fell from a height and fractured his right leg."

Zhao You walked to the balcony, Xiaoman followed him, and the two stood on the balcony.Zhao You looked downstairs, and the light from the mobile phone followed him downstairs, illuminating a light gray circle on a piece of black grass.

Zhao You said: "The murderer rushed downstairs and found Zhang Li."

Xiao Man asked, "Was Zhang Li's body found in the fifth building?"

"It was found under the Hongqi Bridge in Yanzigou."

Xiaoman looked at Huiyuan on the grass, and said, "Then you have to drive and discard the corpse..." He looked at the surrounding residential buildings, there were still some sporadic lights, and the narrow road downstairs marked with parking spaces was full of cars. , He looked in the direction of the guard room again. Standing on this balcony, he could barely see a corner of the guard room, "The entry and exit of non-resident vehicles must be registered here. His car may be a stolen car," he looked downstairs again, "then where is his car parked? There are all painted parking spaces downstairs. According to the condition when the body was found, his car is parked here He will stop for a long time once he stops, it is impossible for him to occupy someone else's parking space, and a foreign car parked abruptly in a place that is not a parking space for too long will inevitably attract the attention of patrolling security guards or residents returning late..."

He looked at Zhao You and guessed, "He didn't drive into the community, he drove out in a car in the community."

Zhao You nodded and returned to the living room.He pulled the curtains in the living room completely to both sides of the wall, squatted on the right side and pointed to the bottom of the curtain.Xiaoman passed by, squatted down, and looked in the direction he pointed.Zhao You slightly lifted the curtain, only to see a red dot like a raindrop on the bottom of the dark checked curtain fabric.

"It's nail polish. The Xingji colleagues who rushed to the scene immediately confirmed it. The curtains on both sides only got nail polish here. The nail polish was also found on the spot. It was placed under the coffee table. There were no fingerprints or leftovers. How much is it, packed in a 5ml bottle." Zhao You pointed to a piece of floor near his feet and said, "The floor here has traces of being wiped by alcohol."

The floor was very close to where the nail polish had gotten on the curtains, about a palm's length away.The surface of the floor looked no different from the surrounding floor, Xiaoman stretched out his hand to touch it, and felt a waxy touch, he looked down at the floor carefully, and touched it several times.Zhao You raised the phone a little higher, tried to light it from the direction of the balcony, and said: "It may be more obvious under the sunlight during the day." He moved his position, pointed to the traces of the square on the floor and said, "Before this was Sofa, the bodies of the two deceased are placed on the sofa, the female deceased is here, near the curtains and the floor that has been wiped by alcohol, her hands are painted with red nail polish." Zhao You pointed to Fang Frame, pointed to the area on the floor that had been scrubbed with alcohol, and then pointed to the curtain that was pulled to the wall with a drop of nail polish on the bottom.

Xiaoman followed his instructions and looked at it, and said, "I understand what you mean. When the murderer painted the dead woman's nail polish, the nail polish bottle was placed here." the floor, and then looked at the sofa, "Then, I don't know what happened..." He turned his head and looked at the balcony. Outside the security window, a few leaves of the locust tree were swaying in the breeze, "Maybe he found a Li, in short, the nail polish was overturned and got on the floor, the curtains are hidden, the murderer didn’t find out, he just cleaned the floor, or maybe he didn’t think it’s necessary to clean the nail polish on the curtains..." He stood up and pulled the curtains Pulled to the middle, looking at the distance between the curtain cloth on the right side, the sofa, and the floor that has been scrubbed with alcohol, once the curtain is pulled to the middle, it will be one meter away from the sofa and the floor, he said : "Even if the 5ml nail polish is full, if it is just knocked down, it is unlikely to splash that far. If the curtain is pulled to the middle, or to..." He pulled the curtain back and forth, visually checking the distance, "pull It's not very likely to be splashed halfway, and it's a quarterly possibility." He looked at the balcony again, "here, when climbing down along the water pipe, you should be able to see what happened in the living room from the outside, but it's best Let’s do an experiment with the same nail polish.” He looked at Zhao You, “The night you suspected Zhang Li’s burglary, when he went downstairs and climbed to the third floor, the curtains were not drawn, and Zhang Li passed through. Did the curtain see the murderer?"

He said: "He was burglary, and he should have climbed the water pipe when he went upstairs. The lights in 304 should not have been turned on at that time. A thief would not risk being seen by others. When I went downstairs, if the lights in 304 were still turned off, even though the curtains were not drawn, Zhang Li could see clearly, did he really see anything?"

Xiaoman asked Zhao You: "Do you think red nail polish is incompatible with this place?"

He asked: "Have you inquired with the deceased's relatives and friends? Does the female deceased usually use red nail polish? Is it something she has at home?"

Zhao You said, "Well..."

"I read in the news that they were wearing wedding rings, right? What about watches? Are they wearing watches?" Xiaoman pointed to the kitchen and said, "The marks on the floor look like they were made by watches."

Zhao You said: "When I found the bodies, they only had wedding rings on their hands."

Xiao Man shook his head and said, "Lin Midong won't do this."

"Drag the victim into the bathroom by their feet?"

"No..." Xiao Man was puzzled again, looked at Zhao You and said, "Dai Rou didn't tell you anything? Impossible, this kind of similar cases, at least need to understand the similarities and differences."

Zhao You smiled dryly, and Xiao Man hurriedly called Dai Rou, who answered, "It's not even eight o'clock yet..." in a deep voice.

"Is that Zhao You in your task force?"

"No, he has other cases in his hands, why are you inquiring about this?"

Xiao Man hung up the phone, biting her nails and staring at Zhao You.

Zhao You pointed to the ceiling and said with a smile, "Otherwise...let's go to 604 together to understand the case I'm investigating? It's Zhang Li's case."

Xiaoman said: "Do you think we are here to eat and share the cake? You have a piece of cake, and I have a piece of cake?" Xiaoman scratched his hair, and couldn't get angry: "You are a policeman, a public servant, you How can you lie to the people?"

Zhao You held back for a while, and said: "It's all here..."

Xiao Man was still a little angry, but felt a little funny: "I'm just a casual person, so you're not afraid of me leaking the secret?"

"I'm afraid the case won't be solved." Zhao You said, sincerely again: "The suspect I speculated is dead, and there are many things that have not been proven. Horse doctor."