remnants

When he heard the knock on the door, Yu Sheng and Lian Xu were sitting on the carpet of Nie Qing's house playing "Double Version" Doudizhu.

"Ah Sheng." Nie Qing called softly at the door, and Yu Sheng immediately rolled over from the ground and rushed to open the door: "Ah Qing—eh?"

He didn't expect to see Su Ji beside Nie Qing.

Su Ji met his eyes and nodded politely, "Yu Sheng, we meet again."

"Yeah, I didn't expect to see you again so soon." Yu Sheng smiled.

Seeing that Yu Sheng was still blocking the door, Nie Qing said to him, "I called the secretary today to discuss the case with the three of us. Let's talk about the specifics in the room."

"Okay, please come in." Yu Sheng took a step in and opened his arms, as if he was the master.

Nie Qing felt both amused and helpless about his behavior similar to "declaring sovereignty". Afraid of Su Ji's embarrassment, he stepped forward and slipped Yu Sheng away. As a result, Su Ji met two hostile eyes as soon as he entered the door. It would be better to have the rest of my life standing in the middle.

"Excuse me, who is this?" Su Ji looked at the delicate-faced mixed-race little golden retriever in front of him, not quite understanding where he had provoked him, and his face was a little bewildered.

Nie Qing felt a dull ache in his brain, knowing that Lian Xu would not listen to him, so he had to look at Yu Sheng, "You can introduce me."

"Xiao Xu, don't be like this, we are all friends." Yu Sheng put Nie Qing's shoulders on Lian Xu and smiled, and then said to Su Ji: "This child is mine, and his name is Lian Xu. He is just a little irritable. Some, don't be surprised."

"It's ok."

After Su Ji finished speaking, he saw Nie Qing put all the materials in his hand on the sofa, so he took off his shoes and walked over the wooden floor, sat down beside the pile of playing cards spread out on the carpet, and began to The information is presented in categories.

Nie Qing signaled Yu Sheng to go and sit down first, but Yu Sheng didn't listen, and followed him to the kitchen to wash the cups and pour water. Only then did he find out that Su Ji also had special cups at Nie Qing's house.

"Ah Qing, Xiao Su Ji's cup seems to be prettier than mine..." Yu Sheng hugged Nie Qing from behind, put his chin on his shoulder and stared at the thing in his hand.

Nie Qing raised the corners of his mouth calmly, and said flatly: "If you like this, you can trade yours for him."

"I don't!" Yu Sheng hurriedly put his cup in his hand, and said with some pride, "This is the couple's cup you specially gave me!"

"You think too much." Nie Qing shook off the water on his hands after washing a cup, and wiped the remaining drops of water on Yu Sheng's face. He smiled and said, "When I bought it, they said that I would buy two dozen seven If I buy only one, I won’t get a discount, so I’ll buy two.”

"..." Yu Sheng's face was wiped with water, and his expression at this time was as if he had just cried, "Ah Qing...you bought it for me, right?"

Nie Qing finally couldn't help laughing. Before walking out of the kitchen, he grabbed him and quickly pecked him on the lips, then pushed him away and said, "Okay, I'm going to get down to business right now, don't make trouble."

"Oh, but you forgot to add tea to Xiao Su Ji." Yu Sheng pointed to the cup in his hand.

Nie Qing shook his head, "It's not that I forgot, the secretary has a bad stomach, so try not to let him drink tea."

"Hey..." Yu Sheng curled his lips, "You are still meticulous."

Nie Qing pretended not to hear, and put all the water on the coffee table next to the sofa when he went out. Seeing that Su Ji had laid out all the materials, he sat down on the carpet together for the rest of his life, and then raised his head to ask the door god to keep watch. Lian Xu on the side: "Do you want to participate?"

Lian Xu ignored him and only looked at Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng smiled at him indifferently, "You can do whatever you want, you can go to my place first if you don't want to stay."

"I'll wait for the third brother to go together." After Lian Xu said this, he finally stopped standing, but walked around on the carpet and sat down cross-legged behind Yu Sheng.

Su Ji glanced at Nie Qing, Nie Qing shook his head lightly at him, Yu Sheng's gaze swiveled between the two of them with great interest, and then suddenly he slapped his hands on the file bag in front of him with a stern expression. Said: "Let's start working."

Nie Qing nodded, "Let's talk about today's case first. These are photos taken from the scene. These two are the arrangement of the deceased's personal information and the transcripts of the informant and related parties. A Sheng, take a look first."

"Okay." Yu Sheng took the materials from him, roughly flipped through them, and then picked up the photos of the scene to examine them carefully.

After about half a minute, he suddenly let out a "huh", pointed to one of the recent photos of the deceased's face and asked, "Did your people wipe the face of the deceased after they went to the scene?"

"No, what's the matter?" Nie Qing asked.

Yu Sheng let out a soft "hiss", looked at the photo again and said, "I can't tell, but I always feel that the face of the deceased was wiped intentionally, it was very clean, and the hair was combed very well. tidy."

Nie Qing pondered for a while after listening, "The face is clean and the hair is tidy. He may have done it himself. Why do you think it was done by someone else?"

"It's probably impossible for him." Yu Sheng took out another photo and handed it to Nie Qing, and tapped it with his finger, "Pay attention to the cuffs of his sweater and the bottom of his jeans, they are all blackened, right? The black and white stripes on his sneakers are almost turning into black and gray, which shows that he does not wash them frequently or seriously. A person like him should not be very particular about personal hygiene, so I think he During the period from when he left home at [-]:[-] am yesterday to when he was killed in the evening, he probably would not have deliberately found a place to tidy up his appearance."

"Is it possible that he met a woman he liked more before he was killed? That's why he washed himself specially?" Su Ji asked beside him.

Yu Sheng couldn't help but sigh, "If he can think of freshening up, why doesn't he change into more decent clothes? Wearing this to meet people, isn't it just waiting for them to treat him as a dick?"

"But this is very strange. Who would do this kind of thing for him?" Nie Qing frowned, "Could it be the murderer?"

"I think it's very possible." After Yu Sheng finished speaking, seeing Nie Qing and Su Ji looking at him, he continued: "Look at the shape of the corpse—the deceased is lying flat on the ground, his eyes are closed, his face is serene and very clean , with neat forehead hair, hands placed flat on both sides of the body, the wound on the chest has no obvious splatter-like blood. Looking around, there is no sign of a fight in the mortuary, and the dead is lying in the middle. Who would think it was an unnatural death?"

Nie Qing: "Are you trying to say that the person who put the deceased here seems to have some feelings for the deceased?"

"That's right, otherwise there's no need to be so troublesome, you just need to clean up your own traces." Yu Sheng raised his face and asked, "Have you investigated all the people who were close to the deceased?"

"I have checked. But because the deceased was not very popular during his lifetime, so far only his roommates have been found." Nie Qing said somewhat seriously.

"Roommate?" Yu Sheng thought for a moment, "Oh, the one named Mu Xi Ze." He picked up the transcript that Nie Qing handed him just now, and read while reading: "'Suspicions temporarily ruled out—— Because there was a surveillance video at the time of the incident to prove that he had never left the community. The surveillance video only covered the entrance and exit of the community, but the courtyard wall of the community was surrounded by high-voltage wires, and the walls were embedded with broken glass, so ordinary people could not climb over. 'Ordinary people... that is to say, Or is there someone who can climb over?"

"It's hard to say, I sent my brother to scout, at least he reacted to me when he came back, he really couldn't get over it." Nie Qing said noncommittally.

Yu Sheng was dubious when he heard this, "How is your little brother's skill? How does he compare with you and me?"

Nie Qing thought for a while, "Five to sixty percent."

"Hey..." Yu Sheng looked disgusted, "Let's go there in person tomorrow."

"Okay." Nie Qing also had the same intention.

"By the way, have you found out the whereabouts of the deceased yesterday before he was killed?" Yu Sheng asked again.

Nie Qing nodded, but his expression did not look relaxed, "He went directly to the company after leaving home yesterday, and then stayed in the company from 12:30 noon to [-]:[-] pm to work overtime, and at [-]:[-] pm Wufen left the company, and we don't know where he went after that."

Yu Sheng: "How long does it take to get from his home to the company?"

"It takes four to ten minutes by bus, and it takes two to ten minutes to get there by taxi." After Nie Qing finished speaking, he paused for two seconds and added: "According to Mu Xi Ze, Bai Zhang usually takes the bus to and from work. , the company and home are 'two points and one line', rarely go to other places, and few people can see it."

Yu Sheng nodded silently, and then said as if talking to himself: "Since he seldom goes to other places, we can first assume that he still took the bus home after working overtime last night—but he Didn't get home - was there an accident on the road? Or he got off the car at the door of the house normally, but for some reason he couldn't return to the community..."

"Yu Sheng," Su Ji suddenly interjected, "Before you continue discussing, would you like to hear me explain the situation of the autopsy?"

"That's a good thing." Yu Sheng raised his head and smiled, glanced at Nie Qing and asked, "Have you heard it?"

Nie Qing: "Well, I was beside him when he dissected the corpse."

Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows and let out a long "Oh" when he heard the words, and then turned to Su Ji and said, "That's the work."

Su Ji nodded, and said: "After inspection, it has been determined that the injury on the left chest of the deceased was a fatal injury. He died of hemorrhagic shock caused by a sharp weapon directly piercing the heart. The time of death was about [-]:[-] last night to [-]:[-] this morning. Between two o'clock. However, one thing is very strange, I found that the wound on the chest of the deceased was caused by two sharp weapons."

"Two types?" Yu Sheng was a little surprised, "Can you tell which two it is?"

Su Ji: "Well, if my deduction is correct, the first fatal injury was caused by the No. 7 scalpel handle loaded with the No. 11 blade, and the second stab wound was after the deceased's cardiac arrest. Use a knife like a folding knife to cover the piercing formation. Both sharp tools have the phenomenon that the handle penetrates into the body, but because the width of the blade and the diameter of the handle of the folding knife are larger than that of the scalpel, we only A wound could be seen. And because the deceased was already dead when the second sharp object penetrated, we did not see a living response at the edge of the wound."

"But since the first stab wound is covered by the second stab wound, how can you accurately deduce what the first murder weapon is?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.

"Look at the picture and talk." Su Ji took out the photos taken during the autopsy from the file bag containing the autopsy report, and pointed out to Yu Sheng: "The stab wounds caused by different types of weapons are different. Compared with the more common No. 3 and No. 4 scalpel handles, and No. 7 handles have a more unique shape, so the stab wound left is quite representative. Although the folding knife has a wider blade, the blade is not thick enough to cover No. 7 The degree of the handle of the scalpel, so after dissection, it can be seen that there are two shapes of wounds in the middle of the wound, which are semi-circular and narrow, and one wedge-shaped and long straight.”

"That's amazing, my little Su Ji!" Yu Sheng patted Su Ji on the shoulder suddenly, and praised: "I can't see that you really have two brushes!"

Su Ji coughed lightly after being patted by him, and said with a flushed face, "It's just a duty. Also, you are younger than me."

"So?" Yu Sheng couldn't help laughing, "I have a group of people who are older than me and they have to call me 'Third Brother', which has nothing to do with age. Otherwise, every time I call you 'Vegetarian Chicken' 'I feel hungry, why do you think you have such a down-to-earth name?"

Su Ji: "...my mother's surname is Ji."

Yu Sheng: "Ah... sorry."

"It's okay." Su Ji smiled lightly at him, and the photos were spread out among the three of them one by one, according to the order of the anatomy, not messy at all.

Nie Qing dragged Yu Sheng back from Su Ji's side, let him sit next to him, and said, "Since the murder weapon has been basically confirmed, let's think about why the murderer stabbed the deceased a second time after death. In addition I also thought of something just now. For the deceased who died of hemorrhagic shock caused by being stabbed in the heart, the performance at the scene was too clean. This time it was not the same as the previous case of Dean Su. Suspicious residues, no objects that can be used as shelters were found at the scene or nearby, and no blood reaction was found in the mortuary except where the deceased was lying, these are too unreasonable."

Nie Qing said this in one breath, and paused slightly.

Yu Sheng already guessed what he was going to say, and seeing him stop, he took the initiative to take over the voice and said, "So, either the murderer took the cover away from the scene, or the morgue was not the first scene of the crime. Right?"

Nie Qing looked at him and nodded cautiously.

"... This case is getting more and more complicated."

Su Ji sighed silently.