heart poison

"Dad!" Qiu Dakui put down the paper sailboat and hurried into the kitchen.

The big porcelain bowl used to stir eggs was broken. Old man Qiu stood motionless by the stove, with deep fear in his eyes.

Hua Chong walked over, frowning at the smell of smoke, oil and indescribable rot in the kitchen.

Qiu Dakui rudely helped Old Man Qiu aside, picked up the broom to clean up the debris and egg whites and yolks on the floor.

A few seconds later, the old man Qiu grabbed the broom and chased Qiu Dakui as if he was running away from something, "I'll clean it up!"

Hua Chongpin understood what he meant - you should hurry up and deal with these policemen, and send them out as soon as you finish your questioning!

In the morning of early spring, the weather could not be called hot, but Qiu Dakui was already sweating profusely, rubbing his hands on his stained clothes, his expression was very stiff, "You guys, you ask this, yes, you suspect that I killed that female?"

Hua Chong approached and whispered: "Are you nervous?"

"I didn't!" Qiu Dakui suddenly became excited, "I happened to find the corpse, and you all suspected that I was the murderer! What's the reason? If your policemen handle cases like this, whoever finds the corpse will dare to call the police in the future!"

"So," Hua Chong raised the corners of his eyes, "is that why you didn't call the police?"

"Me!" Qiu Dakui's face flushed red, and he choked out a nonsense nonsense for a long time: "You can't wrong good people!"

"I've said it before, we came here today as a routine to understand the situation, what are you excited about?" Hua Chong took two steps back.Qiu Dakui had an unpleasant smell of sweat, and getting too close affected his breathing.

"I've said everything I can say, what else do you want to hear?" Qiu Dakui couldn't calm down, his clenched fists were trembling, "I didn't play cards on the night of the 13th. I was really making a paper sailboat for my daughter. My daughter can testify for me! On the morning of the 16th, I went to Erli Lane to buy a dress for my daughter, and when I came back, I smelled a strange smell coming from the wasteland!"

"Are you very sensitive to smell?" Hua Chong asked, "The garbage dump on the wasteland is so smelly day after day, year after year. How can you distinguish other strange smells suppressed by that stench?"

Qiu Dakui raised his hand to wipe his sweat, his eyes became a little strange, "Could it be that my sense of smell is better than others, and I am a murderer?"

"No one said that." Hua Chong snorted softly, looked back at Liu Zhiqin, felt that it was awkward to be called Xiaoliu, and called Zhiqin was ridiculous, so he simply omitted the title, "Is there anything you want to ask?"

Liu Zhiqin lifted the bead curtain, rubbing his fingertips on the conical beads wrapped in paper, "Is this handmade? It looks old."

"That, that..." Qiu Dakui opened his mouth for a long time, "My mother used to make that."

"No wonder." Liu Zhiqin put down the bead curtain and said with a smile, "I had it at home when I was a child, but I didn't know where I got it. Suddenly I saw something similar, and I missed it."

After leaving Qiu Dakui's house, Hua Chong lit a cigarette and asked Liu Zhiqin if he wanted it. Liu Zhiqin waved his hand: "I don't smoke."

"Qiu Dakui and old man Qiu must be hiding something." Hua Chong squinted his eyes in the white smoke, "I have come into contact with many people who reported the crime and found the scene of the murder. Nervousness and panic are indispensable, but they are so nervous. Yeah, I haven't seen it before."

"Do you suspect they are murderers?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. First, the Qiu family and his son were at home on the night of the 13th, and they had time to commit the crime, and they didn't have an alibi. Second, their home is the closest to the crime scene. If Song Hai didn't lie, then they might have seen the crime." When I arrived at Sanghai, I found the body and followed him all the way. After discovering that Sanghai had hidden a fruit knife, he took out the fruit knife, took it back to the wasteland and painted Xu Yujiao's blood on it, and took the opportunity to blame Sanghai." Hua Chong said as he walked forward. , "But I can't think of why they killed Xu Yujiao, and there is no evidence to prove that they have conflicts with Xu Yujiao. Xu Yujiao's interpersonal relationship is not complicated. If we haven't missed anything, she doesn't know the Qiu family and his son at all."

"But the reaction of the Qiu family and his son makes it hard to believe that they have nothing to do with this case."

"Yes."

"There is one more detail—compared with Qiu Dakui, the old man of the Qiu family seems to be more afraid of being approached by the police." Liu Zhiqin said: "Assumption, I mean assuming that they really have nothing to do with this case, there is only one reason. , They are worried about having too much contact with the police and exposing some unknown secrets."

"for example?"

"Hmm..." Liu Zhiqin kicked a small stone away, "For example, there's something wrong with the stuffing in their buns."

"You're having trouble with Baozi stuffing, right?" Hua Chong raised his hand and tapped Liu Zhiqin's shoulder lightly.After knocking, he realized that he was not familiar with Liu Zhiqin, so he took it back in embarrassment.

Liu Zhiqin touched his shoulder, "I'm throwing bricks to attract jade."

There was no deep meaning in these words, Hua Chong was silent for a moment and then opened his mouth, "Qiu Dakui's daughter-in-law suffered from cancer a few years ago."

Liu Zhiqin stopped in his tracks, "Did at home?"

Hua Chong was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect the other party to react so quickly.

Liu Zhiqin seemed to see through his thoughts, and explained: "You must think that Qiu Dakui's wife died strangely, so you talked about it with me when I mentioned the 'unknown secret'. But cancer is not It's strange, and it's not strange to die from cancer, so I guess, she may have died at home, and it was not a natural death."

Hua Chong looked at Liu Zhiqin's pitch-black pupils, and suddenly felt strange but ironic.

Qu Zhi is a good partner. He has a cheerful personality, works hard without complaint, and can handle none of the things he confessed. Even if he is exhausted, he can continue to investigate the case with a bottle of iced tea.

But Qu Zhi could not keep up with his train of thought every moment.Sometimes he finds a very small doubt, but he can't grasp the connection between this doubt and the case. That feeling is very uncomfortable, and he is eager to find someone to talk about, but he can't understand the value, even if he understands it later, he can't understand. Farther than he thought.

In short, Qu Zhi couldn't help him dispel the fog in front of him at some point, and he could only think alone.

But now, the appearance of Liu Zhiqin filled this vacancy.

When he said the last sentence, Liu Zhiqin could think of the next sentence, as if he could see what the other party was thinking.

"Flower team?" Liu Zhiqin looked at him gently, "What's wrong?"

Hua Chong came back to his senses and shook off the silver ash accumulated on the cigarettes, "The residents here said that Fu Li—that is, Qiu Dakui's daughter-in-law—could not bear the pain of uterine cancer, so she committed suicide by cutting her wrists. I have issued a death certificate, and I have to look into this matter later.”

"Does the Criminal Investigation Detachment often do this?" Liu Zhiqin asked suddenly.

Hua Chong didn't understand what he was referring to, "How?"

"After investigating one case, I found out that other things are not right." Liu Zhiqin put his hands in his pockets and said with a smile, "I'm distracted all the time."

"It's not a distraction." Hua Chong said: "It's inevitable to take sideways when handling a case. It's impossible to locate the murderer after looking around at the scene. You can't find the right way if you don't take sideways, but it's not necessarily a good thing if you take too many sideways. .”

"Then I sent Qiu Dakui's stuffed buns for inspection today, is it considered a fork in the road?" Liu Zhiqin asked with a smile.

"You..." Hua Chong thought, it was no longer a fork in the road, it was a dead end.

However, the enthusiasm of new colleagues is worth encouraging, so don't pour cold water on them.

Hua Chong pursed his lips and smiled, intending to fool him.

Liu Zhiqin wanted to speak out what was in his heart, "A dead end?"

Hua Chong: "..."

Liu Zhiqin didn't seem to be shocked at all, and said relaxedly: "Flower Team, are you and I the only ones who think that the Qiu family and his son have problems?"

"It seems so."

"And we just suspect, without any evidence, we can't interrogate them like Songhai."

Hua Chong raised his eyes abruptly.

"But if those buns are found to be defective, we will have the opportunity to have close contact with them." Liu Zhiqin's smile was a bit sly: "Aren't they afraid to face the police face to face? Now they can't hide. If they There is a ghost in my heart, and this ghost will be exposed sooner or later."

"You thought of this earlier?"

"I used to deal with codes all day long, and I needed to think of countless possibilities in advance." Liu Zhiqin turned around, "It seems that the crime team handles cases in the same way."

Hua Chong looked at the new colleague in front of him, and the feeling of deja vu came again.

Liu Zhiqin let Hua Chong look at him, his gaze never evading, and the corners of his lips slightly raised.

After a while, Hua Chong asked, "Have we met before?"

"Of course I have. You also told me that you are a performer."

"Not that time. Earlier."

"Earlier?" Liu Zhiqin raised his index finger and put it between his eyebrows. He pondered for ten seconds, and looked at Hua Chong in confusion, "Probably not, I don't remember. Hua Dui, do you have an impression of me?"

Hua Chong looked away, "I always feel like I've seen you somewhere."

"Have you seen someone similar to me?"

Probably an illusion, Hua Chong felt that when Liu Zhiqin said this, a dark light without warmth suddenly flashed in the depths of his pupils.

There was no progress in the case, and all the pressure from above fell on Chen Zheng.Chen Zheng interrogated Sang Hai himself, and rolled his eyes as soon as he came out of the interrogation room.

"How is it?" Hua Chong asked.

"It's unlikely to be the murderer." Chen Zheng said, "This kid doesn't even dare to touch Xu Yujiao, and dares to kill and rape corpses? But in the current situation, he can't be released immediately."

"Wait, he dare not touch Xu Yujiao?"

"He said that he and Xu Yujiao are in a platonic relationship, and they are together because of their common hobbies." Chen Zheng snorted, "I don't think they are a real couple at all. Isn't he in the history of Luo University? Xu Yujiao is with him , maybe I want to follow him to learn some side knowledge that I can't usually learn."

Hua Chong was speechless, "Is this okay?"

"Haven't I heard that many college students fall in love with foreigners in order to learn foreign languages? Since Xu Yujiao likes history so much, she likes to steal cultural relics, so what's so strange about finding a boyfriend who is serious about history?" Chen Zheng said and pointed to the interrogation room, "Look at Sang Hai, he is timid, his EQ is not enough, and his IQ is not good. If he is stimulated, he will either be hysterical or stutter. If I am a woman, I will definitely watch it." Not on him."

Hua Chong laughed dryly: "Then who do you like?"

Chen Zheng thought seriously, "The new Xiaoliu is not bad."

Hua Chong almost choked on his saliva, "Rabbits don't even eat grass beside their nests, Lao Chen."

"Just kidding." Chen Zheng cheerfully helped Hua Chong, "I heard that he ran with you for a day, how do you get along?"

"It's okay." Hua Chong thought for a while, but didn't mention the fact that Liu Zhiqin had a tacit understanding with him.After chatting for a short time, the person in the topic strode forward with an inspection report.

"It's been found out, there is indeed something wrong with the stuffing stuffing in Qiu Dakui's homemade buns!"