heart poison

Unexpectedly, a large area of ​​cleaned blood remained on Li Liwen's outdoor knife. After precise extraction and inspection, it was confirmed that it belonged to a 33-year-old man named Xiao Chaogang.

The man has been missing for half a year.

Hua Chong had to call an emergency meeting.

"It's a disappearance case in our district." Cao Han held a notepad in his hand, but didn't open it. "Xiao Chaogang is a partner of a startup company in the mobile APP field. In April this year, his wife and parents went to the police station. Call the police, saying that his mobile phone has been turned off, and he has not gone to work at the company, so he cannot be contacted, and he is suspected to be missing."

"Where was the last time Xiao Chao was seen before he disappeared?" Hua Chong asked.

"His company." Cao Han remembered almost all the details of the case. "On the afternoon of April 4rd, he was off work normally, and he didn't go home that night. But his wife thought he was working overtime at the company—his kind of As a startup company, it is normal to work overtime all night, so his wife didn’t care about it. She didn’t call him until the third morning when she found out that he hadn’t returned all night again. At that time, the mobile phone was already turned off. The police station answered the police that night Miles, but because there is no sign of injury, and no property is lost, it is an unexplained disappearance, so the case was not filed immediately."

Hua Chong frowned, "What happened next?"

"Of course the case was filed later, but no valuable clues have been found." Cao Han said: "There is no first scene for this kind of disappearance case, and the missing person left without reason. It is really difficult to start. But about Xiao Chaogang is a man, our team members have learned some things about him through intensive interviews."

Xiao Chaogang and his wife Gong Xiaofan have been married for seven years, and they seem to be in harmony, but they have never had children.Gong Xiaofan was unwilling to confess to the police at first, but later he said that when he married Xiao Chaogang, he was actually cheated into the marriage.Xiao Chaogang is bisexual, but he loves men more than women.Before getting married, Gong Xiaofan didn't know about it, but after half a year of marriage, he gradually noticed the abnormality.However, after discovering that Xiao Chaogang maintained "friends with a gun" with many men, Gong Xiaofan did not file for divorce excitedly and indignantly, but talked with Xiao Chaogang calmly.From then on, the two became a "superficial couple", Xiao Chaogang continued to fly colorful flags outside, Gong Xiaofan spent his money to enjoy his life, and even spent seven years of "respecting each other as guests" together.

This is also the reason why Gong Xiaofan didn't call to inquire immediately when Xiao Chao didn't go home on the first day—their relationship had broken down long ago, and they continued to live together just to avoid gossip from the society and their respective families.

According to some friends of Gong Xiaofan and Xiao Chaogang, Xiao Chaogang has the habit of going to bars to have fun, but because the company is still in the development stage and he is too busy, so he rarely goes to bars in the past two years.After the case was filed, the police visited the bars and nightclubs that Xiao Chaogang had been to, and the surveillance was adjusted. Only a few people had an impression of him, but they all said that he was a very quiet customer, sitting alone on the bar and drinking , there is no sense of existence.

And in the only few videos, no suspicious person approached Xiao Chaogang.

His disappearance looked like a prank that he left voluntarily.

But now, the criminal police who are extremely sensitive to homicides understand that he is likely to have been killed.Li Liwen's bloody knife might be the murder weapon.

??

When Li Liwen heard the word "Xiao Chaogang", Li Liwen was startled for a moment, and then his eyes almost widened as if he woke up suddenly.

But what Hua Chong saw in his eyes was undue fear and fear.

That kind of fear is different from the fear of being arrested after committing a crime. The latter hides obvious violence, but the fear exuded by Li Liwen has a sense of cowardice and helplessness.

Liu Zhiqin pointed out Xiao Chaogang's photo, "You know him, right?"

Li Liwen shook his head almost instinctively.

"On March 3th this year, he went to the bar where you worked." Liu Zhiqin said, "You didn't have a shift that day, and you worked from 25pm to 8am. Have you seen him?"

"No!" Li Liwen's voice trembled, "I haven't seen him! I don't know him! There are many customers in the store every day. I, how could I remember the customers I received in March?"

Liu Zhiqin, however, acted as if he had not heard his explanation, and asked again: "In the next few days, Xiao Chao just looked for you—but not at the bar. Do you remember where he stopped you and told you What words?"

Li Liwen's face became more and more ugly, and he supported his forehead with his right hand, "I don't know what you are talking about! I told you that I don't know him! He, he... is not a good person. If you want to investigate him, go find someone else." !"

"Since I don't know him, why do you say he is not a good person?" Hua Chong squinted his eyes halfway, "We found seven knives at your place yesterday, and one of them responded to the luminol test. I asked you then, Do you think you can wash the blood off the knife with water and everything will be fine. You won't admit to using it recently or admitting that it has blood on it. But now, we have extracted a person's DNA on the knife, you Guess who this is?"

Li Liwen's pupils constricted suddenly, "Xiao, Xiao Chaogang?"

"So you don't recognize him." Hua Chong put one hand on the edge of the table, his eyes stopped on Li Liwen's face, "He disappeared half a year ago, do you know?"

Li Liwen was sweating all over his face, and nodded in fear, "The people from the police station came to investigate, but, but they didn't ask me."

"The blood on your knife is not fresh blood." Hua Chong said, "What did you do to him? Where is he now?"

"I don't know!" Li Liwen hugged his arms, but quickly let go, "I was just defending myself, I didn't hurt him! His disappearance is none of my business!"

"Self-defense?"

"He forced me!" Li Liwen thought that he was recalling some painful past, and his shoulders kept shaking.

"Speak slowly." Liu Zhiqin said softly, "You explain the matter clearly so that we can investigate."

Li Liwen swallowed hard, staring at the table with his wide eyes, "He, Xiao Chaogang only came to our store once. I wasn't the one who brought him the wine. I never got close to him. God knows why he has his eye on me." After I got off work that day, he stopped me behind the store, let me accompany him."

The nightclubs on Bar Street are all decorated in a unique style, the front is glamorous, but the back is very careless, with garbage piled up and dirty water dripping, which truly interprets what is called "the darkness behind the light".

Hua Chong passed by there not long ago, and he could imagine the situation when Xiao Chao called Li Liwen to stop.

"I've been in this business for several years. It's not like I haven't seen a customer like him before. I know what he means." Li Liwen sniffed, "He just wants to sleep with me. But I'm not gay, You can't agree to him for money. It's disgusting for two men to do that kind of thing!"

Liu Zhiqin coughed lightly, but Hua Chong didn't care, and then asked, "You had a conflict with him later?"

"He's a guest, how dare I start a conflict with him?" Li Liwen raised his eyes abruptly, and immediately turned away after meeting Hua Chong's gaze, "In the next few days, he often came to pester me, return, and threaten me."

"Threatening you for what?"

"What else is there? Don't these people just see us as waiters being bullied? If he goes to the store to trouble me, I will lose my job immediately. If things get serious, I will be in another store I can’t find a job either.” Li Liwen was anxious and angry, “I can’t stand being pestered by him, so I promise to do it with my hands and mouth.”

"Is it the day he disappeared?" Hua Chong asked.

Li Liwen took a deep breath, "Yes. But I didn't know he disappeared later, I just, just cut him!"

"where is it?"

"A guest house in Fukang District."

"Fukang District? Xiao Chaogang took you to the guest house?"

"He said that kind of place is safer." Li Liwen covered most of his face, "There are too many surveillances in hotels and so on, and the ID card is also strictly checked."

Hua Chong raised his chin slightly, "Since it's been agreed, why did you still cut him? You brought the knife on purpose?"

"Not on purpose! I have a habit of keeping knives in my bag! I didn't stab him on purpose!"

"'Poke' and 'cut' are two completely different actions." Hua Chong fingers overlapped, "Is it 'poke' or 'cut'? Where did you poke? Where did you cut?"

Liu Zhiqin threw a pack of tissues on the table, "Wipe off your sweat."

Li Liwen quickly pulled out a few pictures, "It was agreed, but Xiao Chaogang backtracked halfway! I have given him that, more than once. He was dissatisfied and forced me to do it with him. I can't stand their gay ways, When we quarreled with him, he even slapped me a few times, calling people like me a born scumbag. If you have a tongue, you should lick a man’s dick, and if you have a butthole, you should stick it up and let someone fuck you! He He is taller than me and stronger than me, if I have to fight hard, I can't beat him at all."

"But you have a knife." Hua Chong said.

Li Liwen didn't speak for a long time, and then he started to sob. His eyes were covered with sweat-soaked tissues, and a deep and suppressed cry sounded in the interrogation room.

Liu Zhiqin turned his head to look at Hua Chong, but Hua Chong's face remained unchanged, "What happened after that?"

"I stabbed..." Li Liwen said while breathing in: "I cut his arm, and the blood on the knife was stained at that time. But we were in the bathroom at that time, and I was very scared. After he ran away, I They cleaned the blood on the ground and the walls, and the knife.”

Hua Chong couldn't believe it, "Xiao Chaogang 'run away' after you cut his arm?"

Li Liwen nodded vigorously, "I really don't know what happened next. I didn't cut his artery, so it's impossible for him to die because of that knife!"

"When you cut him, didn't you worry that he would come to the bar to trouble you?"

"Where do I want to get so much? I can't bear the nausea after biting him, and he still wants to fuck me, so I can only fight him hard!"

Hua Chong sighed, "After he 'run away', he never came to look for you again?"

"No more. But I was always scared, worried that he would appear suddenly. But after a while, people from the police station came to our store, and I didn't know he was missing."

"Then what do you think?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

There was another silence, Li Liwen lowered his head and said slowly: "I hope he will never show up again, die, it's best to die."

??

Leaving the interrogation room, Hua Chong walked quickly to the end of the corridor with a sullen face, and pushed the door open somewhat roughly.

In the past few days, the temperature has dropped sharply. The air conditioner is turned on in every police room, and it is stuffy and hot. After several hours of meetings and interrogations, I feel dizzy and my temple hurts worse than the night when I just got into a car accident. .

Liu Zhiqin followed him to the terrace, closed the door, let in a gust of cool wind, smoked half a cigarette, and his mind cleared up.

"Li Liwen may not have lied, but he must have concealed something." Hua Chong was wearing a hooded coat, with his hands in his trouser pockets, and kept pacing by the railing, "He feels very strange to me." Xiao Chaogang's disappearance must be related to him."

"Where will a man with a cut arm leave the guest house in the middle of the night?" Liu Zhiqin walked to Hua Chong's side, raised his right hand, and grabbed Hua Chong's hood.

When his head was covered by the soft and thick hood, Hua Chong was stunned for a moment, his thoughts suddenly stopped, and he looked straight at Liu Zhiqin.

"Don't look at me like that." Liu Zhiqin adjusted the hood for him, and patted on the top twice, "I will be distracted, and my attention will be on you, so I can't focus on the case."

Hua Chong lowered his head slightly, the brim of the hood almost covered his eyes, and stretched out his hand half a second later, trying to tear off the hood.

"It's windy here." Liu Zhiqin's eyes were soft, and he stopped him: "You were injured before, it's not good if it blows for a long time."

Hua Chong heaved a sigh of relief, "Then don't look at me like that."

"Ok?"

"I'm also distracted."

The light in Liu Zhiqin's eyes was fixed, and the corners of his lips raised almost instantly.

Of course Hua Chong noticed it, but he restrained himself and returned to the topic, "The Serious Crime Squad can't handle so many cases. Since the blood on the knife doesn't belong to Yin Ziqiao, then the relationship between Li Liwen and the throat-cutting case is limited. Tell Cao Han later." Let him allocate some manpower to continue investigating the disappearance of Xiao Chaogang, and we are here to focus on the throat-slitting case."

??

Marijuana is a drug, and cases involving drugs are handled by the anti-narcotics detachment.Hua Chong had reported the drug-related news on Bar Street in Luo'an District to Chen Zheng as soon as possible, and Chen Zheng communicated urgently with the captain of the anti-drug detachment.The anti-drug detachment quickly attacked and controlled more than a dozen important drug traffickers at the fastest speed.

However, this is not a large-scale anti-drug operation. The drugs seized are only a small amount of marijuana and marijuana, and there are no high-purity marijuana and marijuana, which are extremely difficult to quit.

Los Angeles is not a city flooded with drugs. The last city-wide crackdown on gangsters was accompanied by an anti-drug operation, and the drug line was completely eliminated.In the past few years, Los Angeles has done a good job in anti-drug work, but there are still fish that slip through the net.

Fan Bin, the owner of the "Jinsheng" bar, is one of them.

Before being brought in front of Hua Chong, Fan Bin had already confessed his cooperation with the cannabis production and sales gang in the same province, and confessed to many drug traffickers hiding in small cities.

In the cannabis supply and marketing chain, he is just an insignificant small unit, and selling cannabis is not his main business.

By the way to get rich, but "by the way" into the police station.

Sitting on the interrogation chair, Fan Bin was dejected, as if he had suffered a huge setback.

"How many times did this person 'take' marijuana in your hands?" Hua Chong put Yin Ziqiao's photo on the table and looked at Fan Bin sternly.

He has never had a good face on drug dealers, no matter whether the other party is dealing in relatively non-addictive marijuana or the king of drugs.Every year, many anti-narcotics policemen fall on the front line of anti-drugs. He has never participated in anti-drug operations, but he understands that anti-narcotics is no easier than anti-terrorism, and the number of anti-narcotics policemen who died is no less than anti-terrorism special police.

And it is these drug dealers and drug users who have made countless families incomplete.

The dead are heroes and martyrs. What they get is meritorious service, but what they leave to their families is regret.

"Not many times. He was introduced by 'Crab', and he only got the goods from me this year." Fan Bin already knew why he was arrested. "I am in the nightclub business, and occasionally sell some 'pills'. , will give marijuana, not much, I am also afraid of accidents. This time I was caught, I have nothing to say, I did it, I admit it, how many years should be sentenced and how much property should be confiscated, I admit it. But the person who killed this person It’s not me, he’s settled all the money he bought for marijuana, I’ve only met him a few times, there’s no festival or money dispute, if I want to do something to him, it’s just looking for trouble.”

Hua Chong observed the fat middle-aged man in front of him, feeling empty in his heart.

Fan Bin was obviously broken, and there was no trace of lying on his dejected expression.

So who killed Yin Ziqiao?

"'Crab' hurt me." Fan Bin suddenly laughed dumbly, "Tell me what to say to cheat this kid, I shouldn't fucking listen to him, you little bastard!"

Hua Chong simply asked: "Then do you think it is possible for Pang Guyou to do anything to Yin Ziqiao?"

"Tsk, he hurt me, but I'm too lazy to arrange him." Fan Bin said, "Kill him? Impossible, he doesn't have the courage, and there is no need."

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the interrogation room, and Cao Han leaned half his body in, "Flower team, Yin Ziqiao's family is here."

??

Saying that she didn't want to be disturbed, Yin Ziqiao's mother, Zhou Lijuan, came from another city, accompanied by her husband Qi Jun.

"I'm just here to attend to his funeral." Zhou Lijuan's expression didn't look too sad, and her eyes seemed to show more responsibility than family affection, "He has no other relatives, and I haven't contacted him for many years, but I think I should send him off." The last journey is also the last time to fulfill my duties as a mother."

Qi Jun asked: "Can we take away Zi Qiao's body?"

Hua Chong shook his head, "Sorry, the murder case has not been solved yet."

Zhou Lijuan frowned, "The case has not been solved, what conflict does it have with our handling of his funeral? I have my own life, so I can't wait in Los Angeles all the time."

Hua Chong asked, "Don't you want to know who the murderer of your son is?"

The police room was quiet for a few seconds, and Zhou Lijuan smiled wryly, "I just gave birth to him, and basically never raised him. I have no feelings for him. Similarly, he doesn't recognize me as a mother... No, not only does he not, He must have been cursing me to death a long time ago."

"Lijuan, don't say that." Qi Jun patted his wife on the shoulder.

Hua Chong noticed that although Zhou Lijuan spoke calmly, her shoulders were shaking slightly.

Liu Zhiqin gave Hua Chong a wink, and then led Qi Jun to the lounge.

Compared with women of the same age, Zhou Lijuan is better maintained and looks more temperamental.She sat down on the chair with her head down, was silent for a while, and asked, "Do you want to know about Yin Ziqiao from me?"

Hua Chong said, "If you know."

Zhou Lijuan shook her head slightly, "I don't know him. My marriage with his father was a disaster. To put it bluntly, his father left early, which is a relief to me. He is not like me, and his every move They are all like that man, violent and cowardly, no different from a monster."

"Since when did you stop living with him?"

"More than ten years ago, when he was in the senior grade of elementary school. He couldn't understand me, and I didn't want to see him, so we simply lived apart. After that, I met my current husband and moved to the city where I live now. .”

"Then what happened to him at school..."

"I don't know. I haven't held a parent-teacher meeting for him. Before he was 16 years old, I remitted him living expenses and tuition fees every six months." I called and told me not to send him any more money, he thought it was dirty. Since then, I haven’t sent him a penny. Since then, we haven’t been in touch again.”

Seven years is enough time to turn discordant relatives into complete strangers.

But Hua Chong suddenly thought of Huang Caihua.Although this man who drove a truck alone in Los Angeles to make a living, although he only went back to his hometown once a year, he remembered to send money to his mother every month.

Send money?

Hua Chong's eyes deepened.

"Huang Caihua put down his work and temporarily parked the truck in the freight parking lot to remit his mother's living expenses?" After seeing off Zhou Lijuan and Qi Jun, Liu Zhiqin held the coffee and frowned slightly, " What date does he usually send money home?"

"At the end of the month." Hua Chong flipped through the bill records from Qu Zhi, "There is no remittance this month."

"Then it's possible." Liu Zhiqin took the bill and glanced at it, "The earliest time he remitted the money was on the 21st and the latest was on the 29th. The time span is relatively wide. The day he disappeared was on the 25th, which is not too late. What's the rush? So anxious to put down work to send money? His mother hasn't called him recently, so he can rule out the possibility of needing money urgently."

"Then he wants her mother to receive the money on this day?" Hua Chong said.

"Is this a special day?" Liu Zhiqin took a sip of his coffee, realized that he forgot to add sugar, and quickly put it down, but his eyes lit up, "We met Zou Ming at the Red House for the Xulushan case. He took the risk to go to the red house when he was already a suspect, just because it was his brother’s birthday in the lunar calendar.”

Hua Chong immediately called Qu Zhi, but was told that Huang Caihua's mother's birthday was in March.

"It seems that I was thinking about it." Hua Chong poked his forehead with his mobile phone, his tone was a little tired, "Recently there are too many cases, Huang Caihua, Yin Ziqiao, Li Liwen, and now there is Xiao Chaogang who has been missing for half a year. I It's a bit underwhelming here."

Liu Zhiqin covered his mouth with his hands, as if he had let out a sigh of relief.

Hua Chong asked, "Does your finger feel uncomfortable again? Let me see."

"No." Liu Zhiqin let go of his hand, walked to the armchair where Hua Chong was sitting, and suddenly pressed his warm index and middle fingers on Hua Chong's temples.

Hua Chong froze, even his eyes froze for a moment.

The same thing he almost did to Liu Zhiqin in Luoguan Village.At that time, Liu Zhiqin said that thinking about the case gave him a headache, and he instinctively raised his hand, but he still felt it was wrong and took it back.

But now, Liu Zhiqin was rubbing his temples, and he didn't seem to feel anything wrong at all.

His temples were very hot, and he didn't know if it was the temperature from Liu Zhiqin's fingertips, or the temperature from the itchy apex of his own heart.

"Little..." He was about to speak when he heard Liu Zhiqin call his name.

"Flower team, is this better?"