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Ji Zheng walked over and leaned against the front of the car with him, raised his hand to cover his forehead from the harsh sunlight, and lightly changed the subject: "Has Zhai Xiaofeng's background been found out?"

The smile on Min Chengzhou's face faded a little, and he sighed and said, "It was found out, but the clues were also broken."

Ji Zheng guessed what he was going to say, and his eyes dimmed for a moment: "Broken?"

"Zhai Wengang has kept in touch with a person named Sun Ji all the year round. This Sun Ji has been watched by the county criminal investigation team for a long time, and he is planning to close the net in the near future. Unexpectedly, Sun Ji died in a car accident. When Sun Ji died, the people who contacted him All the downlines and downlines have dived, and the county police department is going crazy, and three months is nothing."

Ji Zhengwei lowered his eyes and listened quietly. When Min Chengzhou finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Is there any progress in Zhai Wengang's case?"

Min Chengzhou pushed his sunglasses, looked at the sky and sighed: "Yes, it can be regarded as not."

Ji Zheng didn't make a sound, waiting for him to continue.

Min Chengzhou said: "On August 8th, the day Zhai Wengang died, we found out that he had dinner with a group of resellers of second-hand furniture. The restaurant had a camera, and the camera caught him. We compared the pictures captured by the camera with the photos at the scene. , found a little difference."

Having said that, he deliberately stopped, intentionally showing off, and turned his face to look at Ji Zheng, as if he was waiting for Ji Zheng to ask him.

But Ji Zheng let him down as expected, Ji Zheng was very indifferent, listening calmly, and didn't ask him.

Min Chengzhou had no choice but to pick up his own words, and continued: "The pants he is wearing are different from those in the photo."

Ji Zheng finally reacted, thought for a while, and said, "Did he change clothes?"

Min Chengzhou said: "To be precise, he only changed a pair of trousers. Why did he change his trousers? I guess it was dirty during eating, or he thought the trousers were not good-looking? Anyway, I am here today to check this boring clue Does it have anything to do with the case?"

Ji Zheng also felt that this clue was of little value. Changing clothes alone was a very common thing. Min Chengzhou must have reached the end of his rope, so he came to look for the pair of pants that Zhai Wengang changed.

Ji Zheng adjusted his glasses and said, "Let's go."

Min Chengzhou looked at him: "Where are you going?"

"Go to Zhai Wengang's house and look for the pair of pants he changed."

Min Chengzhou stared at him and pondered for a while, Ji Zheng thought that he would not allow him to follow, and was about to tell the draft he had made in his stomach, when Min Chengzhou said straightforwardly: "Go, you also go and have a look."

Ji Zheng was a little surprised, but didn't ask much.

Min Chengzhou took the initiative to answer his question: "You are smarter than most of my subordinates. Compared with them, you are more like a criminal investigator. With you following, maybe I can find something that I didn't."

It was only then that Ji Zheng knew that Min Chengzhou was planning to 'make the best use of everything'.

Since Zhai Wengang's accident, Zhai Wengang's home has been empty. His wife Chen Jiazhi has been detained in the detention center and is still under suspicion. His son Zhai Xiaofeng was sent to his grandmother's house for summer vacation.The gate of Zhai Wengang's house was locked tightly, and the cordon that had not been removed was still stretched in front of the gate.

Min Chengzhou pulled aside the two warning lines, bent down and got in through the middle, and only let go when Ji Zheng also came in.The gate was unlocked, and there was a seal of the Criminal Investigation Squadron of the Second Branch Bureau of Nantai District, Weining City. Min Chengzhou tore off the seal and pushed open the gate, and walked in first.

Ji Zheng followed behind him, and walked through the courtyard with him into the house.

Now that Ji Zheng has come, Min Chengzhou treats him as a free manpower for the time being, and said to him: "Your bedroom, my bathroom." After speaking, he went into the bathroom.

On the way just now, Min Chengzhou showed him the picture of Zhai Wengang captured by the hotel's camera, so he knew that what he and Min Chengzhou were looking for at this time were a pair of half-worn jeans.The bedroom has been searched by the police from the investigation team. The investigation team stopped when they found the shotgun under the bed.

Ji Zheng first opened the closet, scanned around in the closet, and found that all the men's and women's clothes inside were placed separately, with a distance of about five centimeters in between, which shows that the relationship between Zhai Wengang and Chen Jiazhi has reached an irreparable level.The pair of jeans Zhai Wengang wore on the morning of the accident was not in the closet.Ji Zheng closed the closet door and searched the small bedroom thoroughly, but still couldn't find it.He was about to leave the bedroom to go to the bathroom to meet Min Chengzhou, but when he reached the door of the bedroom, he stopped suddenly.

There is a table at the door, on which there are scattered sundries such as cosmetics, and on the upper left corner of the table is a neat box of brightly colored velvet threads.These velvet threads are placed in a box, bundled into an oval shape, and a narrow trademark is tied in the middle.The trademark is full of twisted and twisted Thai words. I don’t know if it is a local manufacturer’s sensationalism, or it is really imported from Thailand.

Ji Zheng glanced roughly and found that there were twelve bundles of these velvet threads, each bundle was the size of a palm, and they were all unopened. There is a small groove in which several needles are placed.

A box of velvet thread is not surprising, and the reason why Ji Zheng pays so much attention is that he had dealt with a Thai student when he was studying abroad, and learned some Thai language. He can't speak it, but he can recognize most of the Thai characters.So he quickly saw that four bundles of velvet thread seemed to be put upside down. In fact, there was nothing wrong with the velvet thread, but there was a label tied between them, and the Thai word on the label was reversed.Thai has no up-down, left-right structure. For those who do not know Thai, Thai characters are like ghost symbols, even if they are turned upside down, it is difficult to see the difference.

But Ji Zheng could read Thai, so he saw at a glance that the four bundles of velvet thread had been placed upside down.The four bundles of velvet thread placed upside down are scattered on the third and fourth boxes of the first row, the first box of the second row, and the last box of the third row.They are green, brown, gray, and cyan.

Since the four bundles of velvet threads were placed upside down, does it mean that they have been touched?Or is this box of velvet thread turned upside down when it leaves the factory?

"Ji Zheng, come and have a look!"

Hearing Min Chengzhou's shout, Ji Zheng took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the box of velvet thread, then walked into the bathroom.

Min Chengzhou was squatting in front of the washing machine, with some wet and dirty clothes scattered beside him. It could be seen that they were all taken out of the washing machine, including Zhai Wengang's pair of jeans that appeared on the scene.

Min Chengzhou fumbled in the pocket of his jeans: "There seems to be a piece of paper in it, but it's soaked in water, so it's not easy to handle."

Ji Zheng squatted beside him and waited, watching him gently control the water in his pocket first, and then took out a 'heart' made of white paper.The paper is delicately folded, and each crease is symmetrical.

Min Chengzhou put the origami on the floor of the bathroom, and then slowly unfolded it, revealing the blue pen writing smudged by blisters inside.

"There are words!"

Min Chengzhou immediately pasted the soaked, wet, soft white paper on the sunny window glass of the bathroom, and the sunlight outside the window penetrated the paper, immediately lighting up the smudged handwriting.

"What is written here? Go to... Jiuzhan... Mountain... to see..."

Min Chengzhou carefully identified the words on the paper, and before he could string them together into a complete sentence, he heard Ji Zheng coldly saying beside him: "See you at the old place on the mountain at nine o'clock in the evening."

Min Chengzhou substituted this sentence into it and checked it one by one, and found that it was exactly word for word.He took the paper off the glass and hung it on his arm again, with a slightly agitated expression on his face: "I didn't expect to find something. See you at the old place on the mountain at nine o'clock in the evening. It seems that the person who wrote this note is Jodi Wen who just went up the mountain." people."

Ji Zheng added for him: "It may also be the person who killed Zhai Wengang."

Min Chengzhou continued to wander around the bathroom, trying to find new clues: "But we haven't found out the ins and outs of that shotgun. The murderer killed Zhai Wengang with that shotgun, and then hid the gun under Zhai Wengang's bed. What the hell is going on? Did it?"

Min Chengzhou spent the rest of the time talking to himself alone. It was already noon when they left Zhai Wengang's house.Min Chengzhou found new clues, seemed in a good mood, and took the initiative to talk to Ji Zheng about the next investigation plan: "Since this person can ask Zhai Wengang to meet on the mountain at night, then this person is probably also from Bailu Town, and she is a woman. Go back and find out The handwriting is restored, let the handwriting experts compare the handwriting of all eligible women in Bailu Town, I don't believe they can't find this person."

Although this method has some amount of work, it is currently the most effective and the only method.

Min Chengzhou asked him how many days he would stay in Bailu Town, and Ji Zheng replied that he would leave today.The two then parted ways at the entrance of the alley.

After watching Min Chengzhou drive away, Ji Zheng stood beside his black Lincoln and looked back at the alley they walked out of just now, in the direction of Zhai's house.

He turned around and walked back along the alley, but this time he was not going to Zhai's house, but to visit Tang Xuehui who was tens of meters away from Zhai's house.

When Tang Xuehui came to open the door, she was wearing a pink sportswear, with gloves on her hands, and a gardening hand saw in her hand.When she saw Ji Zheng, a polite and indifferent smile appeared on his sweaty face: "Hello, police officer."

She still remembered Ji Zheng who came to the house with Min Chengzhou last time, and she also recognized Ji Zheng as a policeman.

Ji Zheng didn't correct her, nor did he respond, he just smiled and said, "Can I go in?"

When he entered, Tang Xuehui closed the door again and locked it inside.

The sprinkler belt in the lawn was spraying water, and the fluffy water dripped on the cobbled path between the two lawns.In order not to get his trousers wet by the water droplets, Ji Zhengrao opened the irrigation area to sprinkle water, walked through the cobblestone path, and stood in the thick shade under the grape trellis.

A group of tables and chairs made of rattan are placed under the grape arbor, and a pot of tea and several cups are placed on the table.

Tang Xuehui took off her gloves and washed her hands by the side of the sprinkler, then picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea, pushed it to the edge of the table, pointed to an empty chair and said, "Please sit down."

"Thank you."

Ji Zheng pulled out his chair and sat down, picked up the white porcelain teacup, but didn't drink it.

Tang Xuehui put on her gloves again, picked up a hoe and scissors, waded through a deep ridge of flowers, squatted in the middle of the flowers, loosened the soil with a hoe, and threw out a few weeds from time to time.She worked for a while before asking, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

When Ji Zheng met Tang Xuehui for the first time, he saw that this woman was very smart and sensitive, and she would see through any insinuations he made, so he simply asked without restraint, "Well, there is something I want to ask you."

Tang Xuehui pulled the weeds in the flowers, neither looked up nor looked back: "What's the matter?"

"Do you know that Zhai Xiaofeng is not Zhai Wengang's biological son?"

He asked directly, but also in a roundabout way.

Tang Xuehui laughed when she heard the words, because she lowered her head, her laughter sounded a little dull: "So you have already found out Xiaofeng's life experience."

Hearing what she said, Zhai Xiaofeng's life experience is indeed an open secret in Bailu Town.

Tang Xuehui said: "That's right, I know Xiaofeng is not Zhai Wengang's biological son. I guess there is no one in this town who doesn't know."

After finishing speaking, she turned her head and glanced at Ji Zheng lightly: "Is there any problem?"

Ji Zheng decided to tell some lies to trick her, looked at her silhouette covered by flowers and said: "Zhai Xiaofeng said, he is often taken care of by you."

Tang Xuehui suddenly put down the hoe in her hand, turned her head to look at Ji Zheng, and asked with a smile, "Is that what Xiaofeng said?"

Ji Zheng looked at her quietly and asked, "Did he lie?"

Tang Xuehui was silent for a moment, then continued with the work in hand, and said: "No, that child is very honest and never lies." After speaking, she seemed to feel that her answer was a bit off topic, and said again: "Actually, I didn't take care of him very much. I just let him come to have a meal at home occasionally, or help him buy some books. Xiaofeng is very pitiful, and he also knows that his parents are not his biological parents. Zhai Wengang has violent tendencies, not only beating his wife, but also beating his children. Xiaofeng has He drove him out of the house several times in the middle of the night, with injuries all over his body. All I can do to help him is give him medicine, give him a place to sleep, and send him home after dawn."

It sounds like Tang Xuehui is more than just 'not helping much', she is simply a kindness to Zhai Xiaofeng.As long as Zhai Xiaofeng has a conscience, he will remember her kindness for a lifetime.

Is this the meaning of the words "because my mother is kind to him" in Ailu's mouth?

But Ji Zheng found something strange, Tang Xuehui was very calm and indifferent when she said these words, her tone did not reveal her sympathy for Zhai Xiaofeng, as if she was telling someone else's story in a serious manner.

However, this can also be explained. Tang Xuehui was originally a person with a cold personality, and she might be so cold-faced and warm-hearted.So it's not incomprehensible not to take everything he did to Zhai Xiaofeng to heart.

Ji Zheng was distracted for a while, during which time he took a sip of the cup of tea in his hand, a cool and bitter taste immediately diffused from the tip of his tongue, the bitterness disappeared quickly, followed by a clear aftertaste of sweetness.

The tea was much more delicious than he expected. Not only did he take two more sips, but when he raised the teacup for the third time and put it down again, he suddenly frowned as if he had suddenly discovered something, and took a sip of the herbal tea. It was choked in the throat, and a layer of frost was quickly covered from the back of the neck to the back.

He raised his head and found that Tang Xuehui had stopped tidying the garden for a long time. She was squatting among the bright red rose flowers, staring at him closely among the red flowers and tender green leaves, throwing at him enough to cool off the summer heat. Sunny gaze.

As soon as Ji Zhengou raised his head, he met her eyes, and suddenly there was a chill on his back.

"You are not a policeman."

He heard Tang Xuehui say this to him.

He swallowed hard the herbal tea in his mouth, put the cup on the rattan table, and said in a calm tone, "I'm not."

Tang Xuehui stood up from the flowers, carrying the scissors and hoe covered in mud, and walked towards the grape trellis step by step: "Then why did you lie to me?"

Ji Zheng wanted to explain to her that he didn't say that he was a policeman, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly found it difficult to make a sound. His tongue was a little stiff, which seemed to be due to drinking too much bitter tea.

He hesitated for a while before reluctantly said: "Sorry, I didn't say I was a policeman."

Tang Xuehui sat down opposite him, lifted the teapot with her gloved left hand to fill his cup with tea, and asked with a faint smile, "Then what do you do?"

It is very strange that Ji Zheng clearly sensed the danger, but his brain did not give instructions to avoid the danger. His thinking seemed to be frozen, and even his body became sluggish.

He looked at the white porcelain teacup filled with tea by Tang Xuehui, and he had no time to think about what was in the cup of water, but subconsciously wanted to avoid the cup of water.He propped himself up on the table and stood up slowly, looked at the door tightly locked by a lock, and said a little weakly: "Doctor, I am a psychiatrist."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the car keys on the table, resisted the dizziness and stiff tongue in his head, and said, "Thank you...I, let's go."

As if he was drunk, he walked towards the door step by step in the burning daylight. Every step he took was more and more difficult, and all the strength in his body was quickly lost in the process of walking.When he got under the door, he had to hold on to the door to barely stand.

The door was locked, and a lock with a cold silver light blocked his way.He held the door and looked back, only to realize that Tang Xuehui was no longer under the grape arbor. Tang Xuehui was standing behind him, following him step by step to the door.

When he turned his head, what he saw was Tang Xuehui's eyes that were as cold as the iron locks that blocked the gate.