I caught the murderer

No matter how prosperous a city is, there must be a dilapidated area called "slums".

In City B, this slum has a nice name—Xiangjiang Road.

The road in front of me is narrow and congested, and the tube buildings on the side of the street are crowded together, making people feel depressing for no reason.

Shen Zheng found a place to park the car, and took Pei Yuzhou to find a woman named Xu Qiurong.

"I really can't see that Xu Xin's home will be in this kind of place." Pei Yuzhou observed these old buildings curiously. "The tuition fee of Yude Middle School is not low."

As a well-known star school and aristocratic middle school in City B, it is not difficult to imagine the high tuition fees of Yude Middle School. Fortunately, Jiang Yue was admitted to Yude Middle School as a special student, otherwise Jiang Jun would want to pay the full tuition with his financial resources. I'm afraid it's a difficult task.

Shen Zheng understood this phenomenon very well: "Haven't you heard an old saying? No matter how hard it is, you can't suffer children, and no matter how poor you are, you can't have poor education."

"As long as the children can receive the best education, it's okay to sell the iron."

Pei Yuzhou had never heard this sentence before. Although he spoke Chinese well, he had lived abroad for more than ten years, and his understanding of country Z was still inferior to Shen Zheng, who was born and raised.

Pei Yuzhou shook his head, he really couldn't imagine himself throwing everything at him for a child.

Shen Zheng comforted while looking at the house number: "Don't worry, we won't have children."

Pei Yuzhou staggered: What the hell?who am i where am iWhy did the conversation suddenly jump to the question of "their children"?

Pei Yuzhou didn't want to respond, but he felt that Shen Zheng was a little strange: "Don't you like children very much? Sun Jia, Gu Zhiqing and Bai Lanlan, I think you are very gentle to them."

"Or do you only like girls?"

Shen Zheng stopped, and regardless of whether the two were still on the street, he directly lowered his head and approached Pei Yuzhou: "Don't you know that I like boys and girls?"

——It seems that as long as Pei Yuzhou dares to say "I don't know", he will let people "know" on the spot.

However, Pei Yuzhou knew in his heart that the "honest" Team Shen would not do anything outrageous on the street, so he smiled and said, "I don't know."

It looks particularly badass.

Shen Zheng ground his teeth, but he was really reluctant to deal with this little ancestor.

It's not that he is cowardly, it's just that the other party's appearance when he is infatuated, and he doesn't want anyone to see it.

Who said that honest people are not possessive?

Pei Yuzhou liked to see the other party's helpless look, and then Dr. Pei, who was in a good mood, quickly pecked at the corner of Shen Zheng's lips: "I really don't know."

"I just know you like me."

The breath that was still stuck in Shen Zheng's chest just now dissipated immediately, and he followed up with someone who had slipped away after kissing, only feeling that the usually boring and hard investigation process became vivid.

Maybe this is the aura of love.

Shrouded in love, the two quickly found Xu Qiurong's residence and successfully knocked on each other's door.

"Are you really the police?" The woman only opened a crack in the door, revealing a pair of red and swollen eyes.

Pei Yuzhou noticed that there was an iron chain hanging inside the anti-theft door. It seemed that she was a cautious woman.

"That's right, Shen Zheng from the Special Cases Team." Shen Zheng was still the same, but this time he introduced another person, "This is Police Officer Pei Yuzhou."

"Excuse me, are you Ms. Xu Qiurong Xu?"

"Yes," the woman nodded after carefully looking at Shen Zheng's ID, and she removed the chain on the door, "Please come in."

Pei Yuzhou followed Shen Zheng and sat down on the sofa in the living room. He noticed that although the house was small, it was tidy and comfortable. He could tell that Xu Qiurong was not a woman who made do with life.

"I'm sorry," Xu Qiurong sat down opposite the two, "I'm not in a good state these days, and I have nothing at home."

Shen Zheng waved his hand and said it was not necessary, he had seen too many family members of the deceased, Xu Qiurong's reaction was already calm.

"We're here for Xu Xin's case," Shen Zheng always didn't like to talk nonsense when handling cases, he said straightforwardly, "Please actively cooperate."

Xu Qiurong's hands on her knees trembled, and she took a deep breath: "Please ask."

But it was not Shen Zheng who asked the question. Pei Yuzhou put the photos of the scene on the coffee table: "You must have seen the photos of Xu Xin's death scene. The murderer's method of attack is extremely cruel, and the scene has a great connection with the school. Now The police are leaning towards the possibility that the killer is a school employee or a student."

"Has Xu Xin ever had any enmity with anyone in school?" He paused, and then added, "Any small enmity is fine, please tell me in detail."

Sure enough, even if Pei Yuzhou said so, Xu Qiurong still denied it without hesitation: "Xin Xin has a very good temper and never quarrels with others. How could he make enemies with others?"

But when she met Pei Yuzhou's eyes, she could no longer say those words to protect her son's image.

"There are so many people," Xu Qiurong was silent for a few seconds, "His music teacher, and a few students in the same class."

Pei Yuzhou said, "Do you know about Xu Xin being bullied by teachers and classmates at school?"

Xu Qiurong said "Yes": "Xin Xin told me several times before, but we have no power or power and can't resist anything."

"You can help him change schools," Pei Yuzhou instantly broke through Xu Qiurong's excuse, "but you didn't."

"I put so much effort into sending him to Yude Middle School, I am unwilling and have no energy to transfer Xin Xin."

Xu Qiurong sighed, her voice choked up: "But I didn't expect... I didn't expect such a thing to happen."

If she knew that her original decision would push her son to death, she would definitely not let Xin Xin stay in Yude Middle School.

"Let's talk about those 'students' first," Pei Yuzhou flipped through the notes, "What are the specific names?"

"I don't know," Xu Qiurong said with embarrassment, "Xin Xin didn't tell me in detail, he only mentioned it once, and never mentioned it again after that."

Pei Yuzhou said that he understood Xu Xin very well: when they knew it was useless to talk, most people would choose to remain silent and suffer alone.

"Then do you know who his good friends are?" Pei Yuzhou changed the question, "Or someone he mentioned before."

This time Xu Qiurong did not disappoint the two of them: "Yes, Gu Zhiqing and Bai Lanlan, Xin Xin often mentioned them as his good friends."

Gu Zhiqing and Bai Lanlan?friend?This is different from what happens in school.

Pei Yuzhou confirmed again: "Are you sure?"

"Sure," Xu Qiurong thought for a while, "Since Xin Xin has no friends in Yude Middle School, I remember these two very clearly."

"Maybe it's because I was the only one who raised Xin Xin. He has a relatively introverted personality and can't play with boys. I was worried for a while because he only played with girls."

"But after listening to Xin Xin talk about the music teacher, I started to feel lucky that he only wants to play with girls."

Xu Qiurong shed tears while talking: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault..."

"Where's Xu Xin's father?" Pei Yuzhou handed over a tissue, "I don't think Xu Xin's information says he is a single-parent family."

Xu Qiurong wiped away tears: "I don't know where I went for a long time. I said a few years ago that I went out to partner in a big business, and I never came back after that."

"In the past few years, Xinxin was raised by me alone, and it is no different from a single-parent family."

This is very weird, Pei Yuzhou said again: "In that case, Xu Xin didn't come home all night that day, why didn't you go find him?"

"I worked the night shift that night," Xu Qiurong explained, "I would be away from home two or three nights a week. Xin Xin and I were used to it, and because it was a busy day, I didn't call home."

How could Xu Qiurong think that on such an ordinary night, someone would pick up a rope and a knife and draw a line called life and death between her and Xu Xin.

Pei Yuzhou handed Xu Qiurong the transcript from Qin Qianlan early in the morning: "Then do you know that Gu Zhiqing took the lead in isolating Xu Xin at school?"

Xu Qiurong's eyes widened slightly, obviously this was something beyond her prediction.

Judging from the transcripts of the students in Class One and Three, Gu Zhiqing did often express her dislike for Xu Xin in front of everyone, because she was the class monitor and the first in the grade, and she was very prestigious in the class, so the students naturally Xu Xin was alienated.

"How could it be...?" If it wasn't for the black and white transcript in front of her eyes, Xu Qiurong would have suspected that Pei Yuzhou had lied to her, "Gu Zhiqing is a very nice person, Xin Xin told me himself, how could he lie to me? ?”

She grabbed Pei Yuzhou's hand: "Officer, you must have made a mistake, right? That's not the case, right?"

Shen Zheng, who was concentrating on taking notes, moved Xu Qiurong's hand away: "The transcript was written under the circumstance of individual questioning. I don't think that the whole class one and three will lie so tacitly, and no one showed any flaws. .”

Xu Qiurong put her hand down in a daze, but she still said firmly: "Xin Xin will not lie to me, there must be some misunderstanding."

Xu Qiurong's attitude shook Pei Yuzhou a little, and the matter about Gu Zhiqing's lack of "criminal aura" reappeared in his mind uncontrollably.

Originally, after reading the transcript, the special case team secretly locked the suspects on Gu Zhiqing and Lu Zhaobo, and planned to investigate along these two lines, so Pei Yuzhou put aside the sense of disobedience in his heart.

But now the villains representing reason and perception in Pei Yuzhou's mind were fighting again. He rubbed his temples, and sure enough, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't fully replace the murderer's thoughts.

Is this why he has been unable to catch "him" for so long?

Shen Zheng noticed Pei Yuzhou's distraction, and he gently shook Pei Yuzhou's hand through the cover of his clothes. Pei Yuzhou subconsciously continued to ask, "Does Xu Xin have gender cognitive impairment?"

"The clothes and wig on his body are very neat, and it doesn't look like he was forced to wear it after being unconscious or dead."