pupil mirror

Staring at the address "11-21 Bailixiatang, Qingshui District" on the paper for a long time, he frowned tightly.

Zhao Yi: "This place! It was the last place where Li Xiao ran away after hitting you with his car. It was a shanty town where cars couldn't get in. Li Xiao quickly disappeared after abandoning his car and running away. I checked, but there is no rental information named Li Xiao or Li Xinyi."

Frowning for a long time, this address was familiar to him before, but now he suddenly remembered that this place seemed to be in the same shanty town as the address of someone he remembered when he was a child, but it should be a coincidence.

"Zhao Yi, let the rest of the team go to the hospital, and hand over the interrogation to Jia Er, you follow me."

"it is good!"

When running down the steps of the Municipal Bureau for a long time, he looked up and saw Lu Zhiyao and Qian Xiaoding waiting at the door. Lu Zhiyao stepped forward and grabbed his arm: "What's wrong, Auntie?"

For a long time, he squeezed out a smile and rubbed his ears lightly: "Don't worry, I'll find you when I'm done. I have something to ask you." Then without delay, he turned to Zhao Yi and said, "Let's go."

Lu Zhiyao looked at the exhaust of the car leaving in the dust, and turned to Qian Xiaoding: "Let's go and find Zhile."

An hour later, Xu Jiu and Zhao Yi came to Baili Xiatang in Qingshui District. When they came here again, Zhao Yi still had a dense layer of sweat on his back, just like when he chased here for the first time.

Baili Xiatang is located on the north bank of Luoying River in Qingshui District. It is a "concave" shanty town that is more dilapidated than Longwan and almost full of smudges. Here, time seems to engulf people and stop completely.

It is actually not difficult to find such old shantytowns in Qingshui.

Xu Jiu and Zhao Yi were taken to House No. 11-21 by people from the district bureau. This is a rather strange residential building in this area. It is obviously a refurbished two-story building. The decoration and facilities are relatively modern, but very Clearly the building was empty.

Zhao Yi stopped an old resident to inquire.

"This family, the son started a company and made a fortune, so he renovated the house for the old Lu family... What? Why didn't you just sell it and move away? Probably waiting for the demolition. Have you heard that our area was destroyed by a family in the city? The big real estate developer bought it and is going to build a new building soon, hehe, it’s finally here.” Said, the uncle left happily.

For a long time, I remembered that among the Qingshui plots photographed by Yuan Hong that Lu Zhiyao mentioned to him, there seemed to be a place called Baili Xiatang.

The little police officer in Qingshui reported to Xu Jiu: "Lu Jia, oh, he is the person in charge of this information company. Colleagues from the district bureau have brought him back for questioning. They said that Li Xiao was a neighbor who lived in his parents' house when he was young. He played with him since he was a child. He said that he also knew about Li Xiao's murder and absconding on the Internet. He said that he provided the company's network line for his use more than a year ago, and he didn't know anything else. The fraud has been thoroughly investigated, and there should be nothing missing." The little police officer pointed forward, "The childhood residence of Li Xiao provided by Lu Jia is at 12-2, which is just in front, and we have already checked it out. It's long gone."

Jiu Jiu: "Let's go and have a look and ask the District Bureau to send over the name and information of the owner registered at Li Xiao's address."

"Yes."

12-2 is like a pile of rotten waste wood in a brown overgrown forest in a shanty town, exuding an aggressive musty smell, the first step that Xu Jiu and Zhao Yi took, a chill was forced down the spine, The head-on face is covered with a sugar coating that melts in the mouth, but it is so sweet that it can make you suffocate to death in the twisted and sweet smell.

The smell of rancid musty and expired low-quality perfume is mixed and filled the room. On the moldy furniture are piles of girls' clothes of various colors, ranging from baby clothes, girls' clothes, lady's clothes to professional uniforms, from sweet Lolita, elegant lady, rock metal to sexy royal sister, all kinds are scattered on the wardrobe, sofa and dining table. The floor-to-ceiling mirror in the living room is covered with messy lines of various colors of lipstick. It was like a scar on a girl's heart.

There was no one there, and even though the doors and windows were closed, it felt like there was a dark wind leaking everywhere.

For a long time, I inexplicably thought of Tomie in Ito Junji's painting, beautiful and cruel, wrapped in endless killing intent and regeneration, with fatal temptation and...seemed to be a monster in a woman's skin, which made people feel creepy.

After walking a few steps into the room for a long time, I saw a few familiar skirts and tops piled on the empty wooden bed, and the surrounding white walls had already been soaked with yellow water stains, like a top-down pair. Weird map.

After Zhao Yi walked into the bedroom, he was surprised by the content on the wall and involuntarily took half a step back. After looking at it for a long time, his breathing suddenly stopped.

The walls of the bedroom are covered with photos of women secretly taken from various dark and obscure corners. There are not only women in uniforms such as doctors, teachers, police officers, and civil servants, but also workers, white-collar workers, bank employees, students, and other walks of life and ages. , For a long time, I even found a candid photo of Chen Jiaer in uniform in the photo.

Zhao Yi was so surprised that he almost said something awkwardly: "He...does he want to treat all women as prey?"

Looking at the room full of women's clothes for a long time, he said, "No, he wants to imitate the clothes of these women. He should be... a womanizer."

Zhao Yi: "Then the photo that Li Xiao took away in the nursing home, could it be the same?"

"Probably not, the entire wall was not taken away, and it doesn't make sense to just take that one away." After a long time, he turned to the police officer of the district bureau and said, "All the people in this room should have been passed through by Li Xiao in disguise." Clothes, take them back for testing."

Immediately, he pushed an extremely uncoordinated bookcase on the south side of the bedroom, and there was something wrong with it. After a long time and Zhao Yi moved the bookcase away, he found that it was an old wooden door, and the door lock was the most old-fashioned twist lock. With a slight push, the door has opened a little, and the gurgling wind blows in from the outside.

After a long time, he took out his credit card, inserted it into the crack of the door, and pounded the lock open with several strokes from bottom to top.

As soon as the door was opened, the two were even more dumbfounded than when they saw the pictures of women on the entire wall just now.

The southernmost side of the entire row of shanty houses is surrounded by a wall, only this door is hidden in the deformed house structure, camouflaged behind a pile of rocks on the wall, stepping out is the bank of the Luoying River.

After the infiltration of the spring rain in the previous two days, the wind on this day has a slight fragrance of green grass. A muddy path outside the door leads directly to the main road, without transition or trace.Zhao Yi scratched his head and kicked the stones in the mud angrily: "Li Xiao must have escaped from here, no wonder we searched the shanty town for a long time and couldn't find anyone, damn it!"

At this moment, Zhao Yi's mobile phone rang. He picked up the mobile phone and stared at the name of the owner of the 12-2 house for a while: Guo Qiaoli, it seems that he is not a familiar name.

After wandering around the back door of the house for a long time: "Tell me about the specific situation."

Zhao Yi read it again according to the message sent by his colleagues in the sub-bureau: "Guo Qiaoli is the owner of this room, but Guo Qiaoli said that the tenant of this room is Li Xinyi, Li Xiao's mother, who died of depression and committed suicide many years ago. According to the owner, this house has been lived by Li Xinyi for 20 years, and Li Xiao has been living here with Li Xinyi. Huh? The district bureau said that this Li Xinyi had an ex-husband who lived in the same shanty town before getting married. The neighbor is Qin Guohao..."

For a long time, Ben was still squatting outside the house along the river to study Li Xiao's escape route at that time. When he heard the word "Qin Guohao", he stood up suddenly: "Who are you talking about?"

"Qin...Qin Guohao, look..." Zhao Yi said and handed over the information on the phone, and there were photos of Li Xinyi and Qin Guohao on it.

For a long time, I grabbed my phone and saw Qin Guohao's photo. The man in the photo had a small face with thin eyebrows, and his facial features were very consistent with the man in the vague memory of a long time when he was young: "This...is really him!"

Zhao Yi looked at the surprised expression for a long time, took the phone over and continued to read: "This Qin Guohao has been dead for nearly 20 years. It seems to be liver cancer. He is long gone."

If I remember correctly for a long time, Qin Guohao's hometown is Lanjing Village, which is the place where Li Xiao used to haunt, the so-called hometown.

Bit by bit fragments since Li Xiao's escape smashed into Jiu Jiu's mind in an instant, and the clues that had been dissected all of a sudden seemed to be rubbed together by a wet hand, Jiu Jiu rubbed his head desperately to recall, My heart was haunted by an unbelievable conjecture.

After a long time, he cleared his smoky throat: "Zhao Yi! On the day Li Xiao escaped from Tianyi, did you check the surveillance records at the door?"

Zhao Yi scratched the back of his neck subconsciously, and recalled: "That day... Didn't Auntie say that Li Xiao ran towards Chongxi Mountain that day? There was no time to adjust the surveillance so I led someone to chase him."

"Isn't there a team of people left to search the nursing home? Is there anything I missed?"

"There will be no omissions. They searched all the dormitory rooms, even the toilets, the canteen and the storage warehouse near the back door. Jiaer led the search that day. I will contact her now to confirm..." Zhao Yi Then he dialed the phone.

Listening to the phone call, Zhao Yi's expression changed from frowned and anxious to weird and unpredictable. Putting down the phone, he turned his head and stammered and said to Xu Jiu: "It seems that that day...she said that she didn't enter your mother's room...it was just at the door Take a look."

"You guys!" Xu Jiu ruthlessly pointed at Zhao Yi's forehead.

Zhao Yi: "Jiaer came up to ask about the situation when she came to her door. Jiaer took a look at your mother's room and there was nothing unusual. Your mother said that there is no need to search her room for fear of messing it up, so she said so. Some words distracted the matter, Jiaer never thought of..."

For a long time, he suppressed his trembling breath: "Go and adjust the monitoring of the nursing home and nearby roads on the day Li Xiao escaped! I hope the monitoring in the nursing home has not been overridden."

In the evening, the criminal police team of the Municipal Bureau.

"Brother Zhao, we have transferred the surveillance from Yuanchen Hospital, look here..." The police officer of the technical team was pointing to the picture on the surveillance video and explained to Zhao Yi, "The nurse in the picture entered Cao Wanhong's ward in the early morning. , she couldn’t see her face clearly with a mask on, went in for about 20 minutes and came out, this person was very similar to the figure captured by the camera outside the pharmacy in front. Then she walked out of Cao Wanhong’s ward and came to the blind spot of monitoring. After 10 minutes, she was wearing a nurse’s uniform with The person in the mask passed through the surveillance again and arrived at Cao Wanhong's ward. He came out in less than half a minute, and then walked to the guard and was caught. It was the current suspect, that is, Dui Xu's mother. The image technicians have already analyzed, and from these monitoring pictures, although the nurses who entered the ward for the first time and the people who entered the ward for the second time were wearing the same nurse uniforms and masks, and their hairstyles were not exposed, but judging from their height Judging from their body shape and walking posture, it can be judged that they are not the same person."

The forensic report was also delivered to Zhao Yi at the same time.

After nine o'clock in the evening, it took a long time to drive Zhao Yi back to his home from the gate of the Municipal Bureau. As soon as he entered, he saw Lu Zhiyao sitting at the gate of the courtyard playing with your sister Cao.

Seeing them enter the door, Lu Zhiyao stood up, looking a little embarrassed: "Come back? That... I know you must be too busy today to feed it, so I'll come back."

Zhao Yi didn't know that these two people were having an uproarious quarrel, so he watched for a long time in a daze.

Xu Dongmei's name was written all over his forehead for a long time, and he really had no time to care about the entanglement with Lu Zhiyao, so he nodded at him: "Come in, it's cold outside at night."

Sitting around the tea table, sitting on the sofa for a long time with his head propped on his hands, his eyes closed for a while, he still couldn't resist the exhaustion.Lu Zhiyao got up and went to the kitchen to make tea for the two of them. He suddenly felt that he could hardly do any work at home. He usually opened his mouth and stretched out his hands during meals, but he didn't even notice it. He even went from the living room to the bedroom. He didn't even go down the road by himself, and they carried him back to the room for a long time.Thinking of this, Lu Zhiyao scratched his hair annoyedly, and clumsily took out a few pieces of unknown type of tea from the tea pot, threw them into a teacup, poured water and took them out.

Zhao Yi was so thirsty that his throat was smoking, he grabbed the teacup and drank it, took a mouthful of the tea leaves floating on it, coughed for a long time, looked at the two awkward people with wide eyes, and didn't know where to start.

After looking at the three cups of tea for a long time, he suddenly smiled, stretched out his hand and rubbed Lu Zhiyao's head without hesitation, then turned to Zhao Yi and said, "Let's talk."

Zhao Yi blew on the tea leaves in his cup, and swallowed hastily: "According to the surveillance analysis, the suspect pretended to be a nurse and entered the ward, knocked the nurse unconscious and tied him to the bathroom, and then injected Cao Wanhong with excessive and high-concentration lidocaine, causing him to breathe. The heartbeat stopped. Since no one noticed at the time, no rescue was done in time. The suspect left the ward after confirming that Cao Wanhong was dead, and disappeared in a surveillance corner for a while. When he reappeared, it was your mother wearing a nurse uniform, staying in Cao Wanhong's ward for half a minute She came out sooner than later. We speculated that she might have put the syringe with her fingerprints in Cao Wanhong's ward, and then she came out and met the people at the security department. In fact, the hospital also has emergency services at night, so it is not impossible to escape. Auntie may be Deliberately throwing himself into the trap. We checked all the surveillance after the police arrived, and almost no suspicious people appeared again. Until the outpatient clinic opened in the morning and a large number of patients entered, the suspect should have been hiding in a hidden place until daytime. Get out. Whether it's captured on the surveillance or described by the nurse who was knocked out, the nurse who appeared for the first time is very similar to Li Xiao's physical characteristics."

Jiujiu pulled the corners of his mouth and forced a smile: "It's so similar to Tiaohulishan, my mother was so deliberate because of him that she almost got herself into it—how about the surveillance in the nursing home?

"What?" Lu Zhiyao's surprise obviously didn't fit his mouth.

Zhao Yi: "I have seen that after the Porsche stopped at the front door, Li Xiao did enter the nursing home, but before we arrived that day, there was no sign of Li Xiao running away from the front and rear doors. After we left There is no sign of Li Xiao in all the recorded gate monitoring, but there were cars sent from the nursing home to the city in those days. Unknowingly returned to the city."

For a long time, I used a pen to write rustlingly on the paper, gritted my teeth and said: "We went around Chongxi Mountain and almost dug up the mountain graves. The twelve zodiac signs on the mountain were almost tossed to recognize us. Fortunately, he used me. Mom turned around and went back to the city."

Lu Zhiyao leaned forward suddenly: "Use Auntie? What do you mean? Auntie doesn't know him before, why help him?"

After looking at Lu Zhiyao for a long time, he didn't know what to say. He turned his head to look at Zhao Yi: "Keep watching from Wanquan. That Qin Guohao, let the district bureau dig deeper. I want to know where he worked before he died, and if there was any special incident. thing."

Zhao Yi: "Okay, Captain Xu, where is your mother..."

"Tomorrow I will go to Chen Bureau."

After Zhao Yi left, the room suddenly became quiet, and there was a tiny dust called embarrassment floating in the air, just big enough to make people feel its existence.

"Your mother..." Lu Zhiyao just said two words, but was interrupted by a long time: "Zhiyao, wait a moment." After a long time, he went upstairs.

Xu Dongmei's room was on the second floor, and Lu Zhiyao had never been there before. They were under the same roof, and he always felt that it was a place that didn't belong to him.Speaking of which, Lu Zhiyao was never afraid of Lu Yuanzhen and Wu Caizhi when he was adolescence, but for some reason he was instinctively reserved towards Xu Dongmei, the tense relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is the same reason all over the world.Lu Zhiyao looked up the stairs, only to hear a rustling sound, and he didn't know what he was looking for for a long time.

"What are you looking for, why don't you let your sister Cao go up and help you, and I'll guarantee you two minutes to pick up the things you've been looking for for two hours."

After a long time, he came down, holding a large envelope bag in his hand.

"Back to you."

Lu Zhiyao took the envelope bag, and inside was the remittance approval slip that was stolen from him. Lu Zhiyao didn't know what to say for a while, he was stunned in place, and finally said: "Brother, do you want to check? As long as I know about it, I will definitely tell you, there is no need to use this method.”

Jiu Jiu: "Didn't you tell me about this approval form?"

"I……"

Deceit is something that cannot be dug deep, coming and going is nothing more than getting involved too much but wanting to be together with the simplest relationship. People are in the world, and it is not easy to want a transparent relationship like snow.

What's more, without dust as the nucleus, where did the rain and snow come from, that pure heavy snow just fell in Lu Zhiyao's eyes.

Jiu Jiu: "Who gave you this thing?"

"A person entrusted a special car driver to deliver it to me. According to his description, the client is very similar to Li Xiao."

Sighing for a long time: "I may have to take care of my mother these two days, can you help me continue to trace the origin of this thing?"

Lu Zhiyao waved the envelope bag: "No problem." He moved a few steps in place: "Then...then I'll go first."

I wanted to say something for a long time, but I didn't say it, and the word "um" came out of my throat.Looking at the back of Lu Zhiyao leaving, he stood there for a long time.Lu Zhiyao teased your sister Cao for a while at the door, then drove her into the house and walked out.After fidgeting for a long time, a nail seemed to grow on the sofa, causing him to jump up and walk towards the door.He cautiously stepped on the threshold and leaned out, seeing Lu Zhiyao carelessly talking on the phone with his pocket in the alley, his shadow stretched farther and farther, and soon turned into the main road next to him, leaving only the corners of his lips to spit out A wisp of gray-blue smoke curled up under the dim street lamps and then dissipated into nothingness with a halo in the dark night.

The wind in April seems to be not so strong, it starts to be gentle and soft, calling people to look up and feel it head-on. The dark fragrance brushed against Lu Zhiyao's billowing clothes, but it was so gentle that he couldn't turn his head to take a look.

When Lu Zhiyao walked out of the house, his footsteps were so slow that the hair on the carpet at the door was almost worn out. Your sister Cao came over wagging her tail to flatter her, and she was driven into the house.When he walked out the door, his footsteps paused, and he didn't chase, hug or coax him for a long time, so he stuck his neck and didn't look back.

Lu Zhiyao bought a pack of cigarettes at the tobacco store opposite and walked towards the alley. He put his pockets in his pocket, called Qian Xiaoding and asked him to pick it up, and then walked slowly through the alley in what he thought was a very chic posture. .After turning into the main road next to him, he limply leaned against the wall and took a puff of a cigarette. He obviously wanted to leave, but he felt as if he had been kicked out. Mr. Lu felt very uncomfortable.He leaned his head against the masonry on the wall behind him, trying to sneak a peek to see if there was a familiar figure on the road behind the wall, but he didn't put his head out after all.

He was afraid of seeing him for a long time, but even more afraid of not seeing him.

The night was very calm, the wind was very calm, and the fireflies under the street lamps were all very calm, so parting became a very peaceful thing.

In the stillness of the night, a moth hit the street lamp, and the sound of "pia" hit the eardrums of the two of them like a drum.

The spring breeze is a good spring breeze, but it is a pity that the one you love is left behind.