monologue

"The evidence is all in front of us, but the tricky thing now is that except for Zheng Shan, no one knows whether he committed the crime while he was awake or sick." Xia Ci put down the things in his hand and turned off the projector.

"Has Team Chu come back?" Xia Ci asked.

Qi Shaocheng raised his hand and replied: "Report, Team Chu is dating suspect Wen Xiangqin!"

Bai Yao also raised her hand: "I can testify that I saw that social elite come to pick up Team Chu!"

Zhao Chen: "Report to the deputy team. The captain is negligent in his duties and talks about personal relationships during work hours. I request a review of [-] words."

Xia Ci: "..."

"Zhao Chen and Lang Lang are in charge of the aftermath of the victims' families, while others transfer the cases of Su Ai and Huang Qing."

Lang Lang nodded, knowing that they wanted to ease everyone's emotions, so he packed up his notebook and said, "The family members of the deceased are here, and they are in the reception hall, monkey, let's go."

Zhao Chen got up and followed, and said as he walked, "Sister Wolf, don't keep calling me nicknames, I'm a man with thousands of faces, monkeys are so ugly."

"Return to the original body, forget it if you are not satisfied."

Everyone scattered like birds and beasts, and left the meeting room in minutes.

In contrast, the service hall can be said to be overcrowded. There were nearly twenty people sitting in the hall of the service center. They were notified to go to the Public Security Bureau. Half of them knew what they were here for, and the other half didn't know what was going on. , Lang Lang asked Bai Yao to send the printed information to the family members, and everyone would have a copy.

A white-haired old woman approached Lang Lang supported by her daughter. Lang Lang walked up to her when he saw her. The old woman asked eagerly, "Officer, did we do something wrong?" The old man and his daughter looked at each other, both confused and flustered. The Public Security Bureau is a very unpopular place. Criminals don't want to come, and ordinary people don't want to come if they have nothing to do.

Lang Lang helped the old man to the nearest chair and sat down. Lang Lang patiently explained: "That's right, we recently found out a case, and we came here to claim the belongings of the deceased."

Lang Lang didn't know what to say for a while. After all, a person who had passed away was suddenly found one day that he still had a hand that had been chopped off and was well preserved. Lang Lang was afraid that something might happen to the old lady's excitement.

The old lady looked at Lang Lang eagerly, and asked: "Did my little grandson get into a fight? I said that he would get into trouble sooner or later if he was disobedient!" The old lady began to wipe away tears.

Lang Lang quickly said: "You misunderstood, fighting is not our business, you are Wu Hui's wife, right?"

Both the old lady and her daughter were taken aback. The old lady wiped away her tears and asked blankly, "Yes, I am. My wife passed away last year."

"It's like this. We recently found your husband's hand in a suspect's house." Lang Lang gritted his teeth and said, she gestured to Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen scratched his hair in distress, and walked towards the three of them.

Sure enough, upon hearing the news, the old lady was at a loss at first, then stunned, and after she figured it out, she began to cry, out of breath, patted her thigh tremblingly, and said to herself: "This is What crime did you do——didn’t you die? Why did someone chop off your hand! Old Wu—”

Seeing that the old lady was about to lose her breath from crying, the old lady's daughter comforted the old lady while crying, Zhao Chen quickly helped the old lady who couldn't sit still, Lang Lang saw the situation and went to find the next family member.

In this way, Lang Lang was in charge of notifying the family members of the news that the hands of the deceased had been chopped off after death. Zhao Chen hurriedly calmed down the emotions of the family members of the deceased.

Zhao Chen slumped on the chair and said out of breath, "Sister Lang, don't call me when you're calming down the families of the victims. My head is about to explode."

Lang Lang was also very tired, he waved his hands and said: "You are a man of thousands of faces, a friend of women, if you don't want me, who can I look for."

Zhao Chen pointed to those people and said: "After the old man cries, the old lady cries, and the old lady cries, the little girl cries, and then I should cry! Sister Wolf, you are a woman, you should do this kind of work!"

Lang Lang patted him on the shoulder and made a cheering gesture, "Who told you that you look good?"

Zhao Chen scoffed, calling him Qianmian Yulang when he was in use, and Qianmian Yulang when he was not in use, both of them were like this, the key was that he didn't live up to expectations, and it was easy to go to heaven with a boast.

"I didn't intend to obstruct your investigation."

"Correct me, it's the police investigating the case." Chu Xingmu and Wen Xiangqin sat face to face, Wen Xiangqin ordered two cups of coffee, Chu Xingmu looked at him with a cold face.

"Wen Xiangqin, I don't care about any conflicts between you and Wen Ti, you are the suspect."

Wen Xiangqin suppressed a surge of anger in his heart, he looked at Chu Xingmu in astonishment, and asked, "You don't believe me?"

Chu Xingmu asked back: "Why should I trust you?"

The expression on Wen Xiangqin's face was very ugly. He was suspected of being a suspect by his classmates and friends, the Iron Triangle Brothers many years ago.

"Wen Xiangqin, I still say the same thing, you are not suitable to be a policeman, you don't know how rotten the roots of this society can be, you don't know what kind of monsters people will turn into because of desire, and you don't know that people who hold great power What crazy things can you do, you think it is easy to use my hand to suppress Wen Ti, it is just a matter of your few words and testimony, but for me, it is the life and responsibility on my shoulders."

Chu Xingmu had this feeling nine years ago, Wen Xiangqin was not suitable to be a policeman, and his ambition was not to be a policeman, and his going to the police academy was just a life plan arranged by his father.

Wen Xiangqin fell silent. In his 30 years of life, he was controlled by his father for 18 years and controlled by the group for [-] years. Only the three years in the police academy that were spared were for him to decide for himself.

"I will release the surveillance on you. At the same time, please cooperate with my work. There are too many people of all kinds in this society. Some people died without knowing how they died. Some people are alive and licking the blood of the dead. Alive, I don't have time to play tricks with you businessmen."

Chu Xingmu probably guessed something about Wen Xiangqin and Wen Ti, and Wen Xiangqin smiled bitterly: "Can we still be friends?"

"That's why I asked you out alone. If it was someone else, he would have been in the Public Security Bureau for several days now." Chu Xingmu picked up the coffee and drank half a cup in one go.

Wen said to Qin: "Are you cheating for personal gain?"

Chu Xingmu put down his cup and laughed: "Oh, you think highly of me. People who know me say that I'm good at playing hooligans. Who am I going to play for?"

The conversation between the two ended well, and Wen Xiangqin breathed a sigh of relief.

After Chu Xingmu came out of the coffee shop, he called Tang Zhe. Lin Lin always knew something about Su Ai, and sent tasks to Qi Shaocheng and others by the way. Su Ai's interpersonal relationship, friends, property funds, marital status and emotions Experience, whether you have made enemies with others, etc., all need to be learned in detail. After checking one by one, you may be able to pinpoint the suspect.

Chu Xingmu planned to go to the Jin'an Ballroom. Before that, he asked Tang Zhe to go to the Children's Hospital to see Su Ai's sister.

Huang Qing died, Liu Ziyi was in a car accident, Su Ai died, who connected these people together?What is his purpose?

Chu Xingmu went to the Jin'an Ballroom in his private capacity. The Jin'an Ballroom is operated legally. At least Chu Xingmu didn't hear any rumors of underground business. He even went home and changed his clothes and thought about it seriously What kind of image do you want to go with.

In the end, he wore a suit that could finally bring out his good-looking skin and masculine charm, which may also be the reason why he is usually too sloppy.

After Chu Xingmu drove to the entrance of Jin'an Ballroom, a waiter immediately came to help him open the door. Chu Xingmu's acting skills were top-notch, with a capitalist's usual expression, and a waiter got into him after he got off the car. In his car, he drove into Jin'an's underground parking lot, and another waiter guided him in.

When he stepped into the golden bank, a few words floated in Chu Xingmu's mind: the confidence of capitalists.

They are usually practiced by squeezing the players.

He wanted to find an opportunity to check if there was any suspicious place in this ballroom. After the waiter brought him in, Chu Xingmu said that he wanted to drink something first, and then he sat down at the bar, wearing a black uniform, The female bartender with a high ponytail asked, "Sir, what would you like to drink?"

Chu Xingmu was amazed by the crowds at the Golden Shore Ballroom, and casually said, "A glass of whiskey without ice."

Jin'an Ballroom is very different from the ballrooms that Chu Xingmu has been to before. Most of the ballrooms follow the bar style. Once you enter, there is a decadent and chaotic atmosphere. Jin'an is not like this at all. There are soothing light music and lighting in the room. It’s between light and dark, unlike other dance halls where it looks like it’s getting dark when you enter. There is a circle of cubicle sofas around the dance floor. Most people rest outside the dance floor, but there are not many people on the dance floor. reason.

"Sir, your whiskey is ready." The female bartender put the whiskey in Chu Xingmu's hand. The Golden Shore Ballroom is only for rich people, and its grade is relatively higher than some ordinary ballrooms. Chu Xingmu thought to himself, Sure enough, it was Wen Xiangqin's style. Why didn't Huang Qing directly ask Wen Xiangqin to come here?

Chu Xingmu picked up the wine glass and sniffed it, then turned his gaze to the wine rack behind the female bartender. There were mostly red wine, brandy, whiskey, vodka, and cocktails, but there was no white wine.

So Chu Xingmu raised his head, put on a wanderer's expression and said: "Beauty, your music is not strong enough."

The female bartender paused while wiping the glass, looked at Chu Xingmu with a professional smirk, and said, "Sir, we are a formal dance hall here, if you go wrong, we can send you out."

Chu Xingmu smiled instead: "In this case, I will tell the truth. Su Ai asked me to come here. She was already 10 minutes late. We made an appointment to meet here at 03:30, and I am now forty."

After hearing the word "Su Ai", the female bartender's eyes were a little erratic. Su Ai is a dancer from Jin'an, and she is also the most popular dancer. It's just that it's more convenient for a dancer to travel than ordinary employees. She She was still able to attend parties with her boss and some important guests, so the employees of Jin’an Ballroom said privately that she was adopted by others, and some people asked, since they were all adopted, why did she come out to dance?

"Has Su Ai asked for leave today?" Chu Xingmu continued to ask, his tone was very peaceful, without persecution or questioning, just the tone of an ordinary appointment-goer.

The female bartender lowered her eyes, put down the goblet and the glass towel in her hand, put her hands on the bar, and said, "She is dead."

Chu Xingmu frowned, looked at her in disbelief, and asked, "Dead? I just contacted her on the phone yesterday."

The female bartender whispered: "I heard that she died last night. The police received the call this morning and went to her home to see the scene."

Chu Xingmu blinked twice, thinking that he did not sleep last night to interrogate Zheng Shan. When he came out of the interrogation room early in the morning, Wen Ti came to call the police, and went to Su Ai's house early in the morning. He has not closed his eyes until now. His eyes were bloodshot, Chu Xingmu suddenly covered his face, and asked in a heavy tone: "How did Su Ai die?"

Seeing Chu Xingmu's painful expression, the female bartender said, "I heard it was a suicide. The boss went to the police station early in the morning."

Chu Xingmu informed Xia Ci in advance that if Su Ai's boss went to the police station, let him know the situation first, so Jiang Fu did not see Chu Xingmu, and would not know that Chu Xingmu would come to his ballroom.

"No, anyone who commits suicide, Su Ai can't commit suicide!" Chu Xingmu propped his forehead with one hand, his eyes hurt badly, he winked a bit, and finally showed some signs of tears.

When the female bartender saw it, she panicked, took out a few tissues and handed them to Chu Xingmu, and asked, "What's your relationship with Sister Ai?"

what relationship?Chu Xingmu thought to himself that he wanted to find out the relationship between Suai and Jin An, so he said, "I'm her cousin, sorry to make you laugh."

The female bartender sighed and said: "I used to envy Sister Ai. Although she is a dancer, she is not vulgar at all. She learned to dance when she was a child. I heard that she went abroad to study before. She is also beautiful. , temperament is also good, she should enter the entertainment circle and become a star."

Chu Xingmu seized the opportunity and said: "That's right, she is the pride of our family. I didn't expect that she died before we had time to meet."

The female bartender looked at Chu Xingmu with puzzled eyes and asked, "Then what is your job?"

"I'm on business. I've been out of town all year round. I haven't seen her for a long time. I happened to go back to Qingshi on a business trip. I stopped by to see her. I didn't expect... You said she committed suicide? But since she was a child, she has been up to all kinds of troubles. Come here, how could you commit suicide?"

The female bartender shook her head and said, "I don't know about it. She has a good temper and is a very nice person. She comes here for a few drinks when she has time. This is where you sit. She likes to sit here the most. Once she even joked that sitting here can see the boss coming in from the outside for the first time."

Chu Xingmu asked again: "How is her relationship with your boss?"

The female bartender looked around and saw that there was no one around, she leaned in front of Chu Xingmu, covered her face with one hand, and whispered, "I think she likes the boss."

Chu Xingmu looked at the female bartender suspiciously, and the female bartender quickly explained: "Her suicide has nothing to do with our boss. The boss treats people kindly, and everyone who works here can see it."

The female bartender was afraid that because of her words, Chu Xingmu would misunderstand that Su Ai's death was related to Jiang Fu, and she might lose her job, so she refused to say more.

Chu Xingmu sat up straight, wiped away the tears that didn't flow at all, adjusted his clothes, and saw that the female bartender didn't speak anymore, so he had to find an excuse to leave. Before Chu Xingmu stood up, the dance floor Suddenly there was fierce cursing, broken glass and the sound of fighting. Chu Xingmu immediately ran over from the bar. The female bartender saw Chu Xingmu leaving in a hurry, turned around and dialed a phone number. The contact person on the phone screen is "Boss Jiang".