heart poison

Liu Zhiqin looked at the swaying fungus in the bowl, and raised his head after a few seconds, "I understand what you mean."

Hua Chong had already scooped up the mushroom soup for himself, took a bite of an unnamed "big head mushroom", and said in satisfaction: "It's really fresh."

After speaking, Chong Liu Zhiqin raised his eyebrows, "Eat it quickly, hot ones are better than warm ones and cold ones."

"No matter what era this kind of activity is, it has a strong collective purpose." Liu Zhiqin didn't eat it immediately, but put the fungus in a small saucer. "In the impoverished Luoguan Village, sacrifices Heaven is nothing more than praying for good weather in the coming year and good luck in the future. Even if ordinary villagers hope to live a good life, they will not plan anything for it. Only a few special people will consider the interests of the whole village and implement it alone or with some people. Worship activities."

"What kind of sauce is this? Is it delicious? I'll try it." Hua Chong picked up Liu Zhiqin's fungus, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and quickly took a sip of the soup, "Is this chopped pepper made of spicy millet? Really? hot!"

Liu Zhiqin poured him a cup of freshly squeezed fruit juice, picked up a few saltwater peanuts and put them on the table one by one, "The village chief counts as one, the principal Qian Zhiguo counts as one, and other cadres in the village at that time count as well. Qian Maojiang's father, Qian Yong, is also a possibility. But these people..."

"All have undergone intensive investigation." Hua Chong was in tears just now, but now his lips were ruddy and his eyes were extremely bright.

Liu Zhiqin's gaze stayed on his face as if he was fixed, and after a while, he lowered his eyes and coughed twice, "Yes, they have been under the spotlight, which does not match our guess about the suspect just now. If they have problems, It must have been exposed long ago. In addition, the autopsy report shows that the five people in Qianmaojiang died before being burned, and the murderer killed them first, and then set the fire. It will burn people alive. The murderer’s act of setting fire to it is very likely that he just wanted to destroy the traces of the scene.”

"Let me make a bold guess. The murderer's motives are very personal, and no one else knows, otherwise 'he' can't hide himself." Hua Chong moved the small dish of chopped peppers and dipping sauce to his side, as if addicted. Put a fungus in it, "Excluding the feudal superstitious motive of worshiping heaven, 'he' killed Qian Maojiang and others, either for revenge, or to benefit from their death."

"These five people should have one thing in common." Liu Zhiqin picked up the colander, picked up the mushrooms in the bubbling pot, and put a whole spoonful of them into Hua Chong's bowl, "Qian Maojiang, Luo Hao, Qian Xiaozi and Qian Yuanbao led and participated in campus bullying, but Qian Qing did not. Qian Qing may be resented by his sister Qian Panzi, but this has nothing to do with the other four."

"There must be something linking Qian Qing and Qian Maojiang." Hua Chong said, "It's just that we haven't discovered it yet."

"Then I'll make a bold guess." Liu Zhiqin returned the small plate of chopped peppers and dipping sauce, "The suspect is among the villagers, and he is someone who has hardly been investigated back then."

Hua Chong said: "Qian Panzi, Qian Fengjiang, Qian Chuangjiang."

Liu Zhiqin frowned, "At the time of the incident, Qian Panzi was 15 years old, Qian Fengjiang was 12 years old, and Qian Chuangjiang was even younger, only 10 years old. If the case is really related to them, it must be a big news that will stir the whole country."

"It is generally believed that minors are vulnerable groups, and they are the most vulnerable. This is true. But many people ignore one point - minors can also hurt others, and it is likely to be very serious harm." Hua Chong's voice Shen Shen, "In recent years, there have been many cases of minors harming or even killing others. The reasons are sometimes creepy, such as not being used to it, wanting to see a person's painful appearance, and some people just for a "Dare you dare?" Killing' bet. The evil that these 'little devils' inflict on others is not weaker than adults, or even more excessive. But they are protected, some can reform themselves, and some become harmful when they grow up. The greater social scum."

"Sudden emotion?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

Hua Chong moved his eyes and sighed, "Actually, I don't like dealing with cases involving children, no matter whether the victim is a child or the murderer is a child."

Liu Zhiqin inexplicably thought of the doll bear he saw on the bay window of the bedroom the first time he went back to Hua Chong's house.

That childish toy is very inconsistent with Hua Chong's aura.

"When I was first transferred from the special police detachment to the criminal investigation detachment, I was not dealing with serious cases." Hua Chong said slowly: "There was an 11-year-old girl who was raped by four 4-year-old male classmates from her same school. You scum, you've been playing around all afternoon."

Liu Zhiqin's eyes turned cold, and he moved his fingers.

Every normal person will feel sad and angry when they hear such a thing.

"Don't look at their young age, they are only 13 years old, but they know everything and know that they don't have to bear criminal responsibility." Hua Chong smiled bitterly, "And they just 'played' the 11-year-old girl, no actual crime happened. Aggression. Do you understand when I say that?"

Liu Zhiqin didn't make a sound, and his face was very ugly.

"I also had your expression at the time." Hua Chong shook his head, then sighed, "I felt very angry, but I was powerless. One of the scumbags said that they just wanted to understand the girls' body structure, they were very 'pure' The little girl had a mental problem and stayed in the hospital for half a year. The only thing I am grateful for is that she is a very strong child. When she was just hospitalized, I went to see her with a few colleagues and gave her a The stuffed bear. Then she recovered and got out of the hospital, went back to her normal life, and gave the stuffed bear back to me before moving to another city with her parents."

"Is that the one on the bay window in your bedroom?"

"Well, that's the one." Hua Chong paused for a moment, "She said, that's her patron saint. When receiving treatment, as long as you see the doll bear, you will know that there are many policemen protecting you, and you don't have to worry about being The bad guys bullied me. She gave me the bear, saying that she was already well and not afraid anymore, and hoped that her patron saint would protect me as a policeman in the future.”

Liu Zhiqin pursed his lips and looked at Hua Chong softly.

After a few seconds, Hua Chong took a deep breath, "Devils don't know age, I want to protect the real weak, not young demons."

"The purpose of our coming here is to bring to light the unsolved case ten years ago." Liu Zhiqin said: "No matter who the murderer is, whether he is an adult or a minor, we will arrest 'him' or 'them' all. come out."

Hua Chong laughed, "Yes."

The high and low singing stopped, and there were festive cheers from the mountain.

The two looked at the direction of the voice at the same time, and Liu Zhiqin said: "They are in good spirits."

"A lot of people come here to play in the name of being close to nature, but in fact it's all to vent." Hua Chong continued to eat mushrooms, "It's okay to make a fuss, sometimes shout out loudly, and the negative emotions will dissipate."

At this time, the proprietress brought a plate of grilled skewers and said with a smile: "Hey, the bonfire party is about to start tonight. Boys, you are also tourists, right? Go up the mountain tomorrow to join in the fun?"

The venue of the bonfire party is generally chosen on flat land such as the river beach. Hua Chong watched the flames bursting up in the mountains from a distance, and said in surprise: "Your bonfire party here is really unique. Are you afraid of setting the mountain alight?"

"Hey, where will it be?" said the proprietress: "It's very safe. There is a large flat land with no trees around. Of course you can't tell it if you sit here. You think someone is setting fire in the mountain. There is nothing wrong with it. The playground of Xincun Xiaoxiao is still wide!"

The villagers of Luoguan Village are used to calling the current village school the new village school, as if adding the word "new" means that all the past can be ignored.

But Hua Chong wanted to mention it.

He smiled, handsome and elegant, "Why is it called the new village school? There is also the old village school in the village? I have been here for a few days, why didn't I find it?"

The landlady's expression changed slightly, "The old village is small..."

"There's a story?" Hua Chong raised his eyes.

The customers in the shop had already left, and the proprietress seemed to be a chatterbox at a glance. The grilled skewers at Hua Chong's table were the last dish to be served for the time being. She looked back, sat down, and As if talking about cross talk, "If you are curious, it doesn't matter if I talk about it."

Liu Zhiqin pretended to be aroused by her, "Did anything happen in the old village school?"

The proprietress pointed to the west, and said mysteriously: "There was a fire in the former village school ten years ago, and five male dolls were burned to death in the middle of the night."

Hua Chong was surprised, "What?"

"I've never seen such a thing." The proprietress raised her eyebrows in a well-informed manner, "You city people have never suffered, nor have you experienced any tragedies."

"Who set the fire, has the murderer been caught?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

"No, no!" The proprietress waved her hand, "The police have come a lot, but they haven't found anything. I heard that another group of policemen came today. Hey, there's nothing to investigate about this matter, it will affect our business .”

"I still have to investigate. Luoguan Village is such a good place. If there is a murder case and we don't investigate clearly, what should we do if the guests don't want to come?" Hua Chong pretended to be concerned.

"Wrong." The proprietress was a little proud, "Some guests just come to our place for tourism because of this layer of mystery."

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin glanced at each other.

Liu Zhiqin asked again: "There are dead people and fires in the village. Boss, you usually live here, don't you worry?"

"What's there to worry about? It happened ten years ago. Those who died have already been reincarnated."

"I mean, aren't you worried about the killer doing it again?"

The proprietress was stunned, "Someone said that one of the dead male dolls, Qian Maojiang, the eldest son of Qian Yong, was arrested and sacrificed to heaven. Qian Yong is the owner of 'Shanweitang', and he opened the largest farmhouse in our village. Yes. I don’t believe such words. Qian Maojiang must have been killed, and four other children were involved. I have nothing to fear. The murderer killed them for revenge. I will not steal Two, don't rob, do my business according to my duty, and don't have any enemies with anyone, even if the murderer commits crimes again, he can't do it against me, what do you two say?"

Hua Chong nodded, "It makes sense."

"Children are murdered, the murderer is too inhuman." Liu Zhiqin imitated Zhang Mao's tone.

"Children also have bad children." The proprietress snorted, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Although it is wrong to say this, I still have to say, Qian Maojiang, he deserves to die! The murderer killed him to do justice for the heavens!"

"Huh?" Hua Chong asked, "Did he do something bad?"

"Fortunately, he died early. If he grows up, he might be a disaster to the society." The proprietress said as she got up, and lifted up her clothes boldly.

Hua Chong: "..."

"Here, can you see clearly?" The proprietress turned her back to the two of them, patted a scar on her back, and said angrily, "Qian Maojiang burned it with fire. Fortunately, it was on the back and not on the face, otherwise I would This life will be ruined!"

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin looked at it seriously, and they couldn't help being horrified.It was a very obvious burn scar, the color of which was different from the surrounding skin. Although the area was small, it could be seen that the proprietress had indeed suffered a lot back then.

The proprietress put down her clothes, sighed, and talked about her experience of being bullied by Qian Maojiang.

At that time, Qian Maojiang was 13 years old and the proprietress was 15 years old.Qian Maojiang led a group of people to arrest the proprietress, including Luo Hao.Although the proprietress was 2 years older than Qian Maojiang, she was a daughter after all, and there were so many people on her side that she couldn't beat her. She was dragged to a small wooden house in the village, and was quickly stripped of her clothes.

The proprietress struggled desperately, trying not to let Qian Maojiang and others take advantage of it.Soon, Qian Maojiang was furious, and asked others to hold the proprietress to the ground, set fire to her, and burn her back.

Hua Chong frowned upon hearing this, the pain of burning, how could a 15-year-old girl be able to bear it.

"What happened later?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

The proprietress combed her hair, she seemed to be unable to remember the pain of being burned, "Qian Yong paid the medical bills, maybe he gave some money back to my parents, it's private."

Hua Chong imagined the scene of the proprietress being dragged into the wooden house and burned, and his eyes quickly turned cold.

Suddenly, something flashed through his mind, and he asked from the standpoint of an ordinary tourist: "Why are there wooden houses in the small village?"

"That's what the former teacher set up to punish the problem students." The proprietress smiled disdainfully, "But the real problem students were not punished physically, and this trick was learned by Qian Maojiang."

Thinking about what he said before contacting the proprietress, Liu Zhiqin immediately understood, "This dead Qian Maojiang often brings his classmates to the wooden house to bully him?"

"Isn't it? It's hidden there. No one will go there except him and his little brothers. The teachers will not go there except to punish the students physically. When the wooden house is empty, they arrest people to beat and bully them. I He must be one of the victims." The proprietress folded her arms, "Who is not afraid of Qian Maojiang? Many people are locked in a wooden house and bullied and dare not tell. I was burned and I can't hide it..."

"Then you still know..." Hua Chong was about to ask, when a group of customers came down to eat supper after the concert, the proprietress hurriedly got up to say hello, and the boss cursed and said, "Come and do something! Crazy woman, you know." Gossip with people!"

The proprietress seemed to be accustomed to her husband's scolding, she stuck out her tongue at Hua Chong, and said with a smile, "I'm busy."

The skewers on the table are already cold.

Hua Chong got up to check out, Liu Zhiqin packed the skewers, and when he left the mushroom shop, the proprietress was arguing with the boss.

"I have some new ideas." Hua Chong said.

"Where did you go?" Xiao Chengxin stood at the door of the hotel arranged by the police station, "I didn't see anyone at night, I was shocked!"

"You're too timid. Brother Xiaoliu and I are big men, so it's okay to go anywhere, right?" Hua Chong said as he walked inside, "Which room do we live in?"

Liu Zhiqin glanced at him inadvertently when he heard "we".

"Isn't this waiting for you to come back? You are the uncle, you can choose the room yourself."

"It's just a guest house room, what can I choose?" Hua Chong went upstairs, "Whatever, a standard room is fine."

"It happens that there are two double-bed rooms in good locations available, don't you need one for each of you?" Xiao Chengxin said: "It is said that the view is very good in the morning, and the scenery outside the window is picturesque..."

"Old Xiao, are we here to work or to travel?" Hua Chong asked.

"Of course it's work!"

"What do you need to be picturesque at work?" Hua Chong said, looking at Liu Zhiqin, "Brother Liu, do you want to sleep in a picturesque big bed room, or just squeeze in a standard room with me?"

Liu Zhiqin smiled, "It's better to be low-key and diligent at work, and live in a standard room if you have a standard room."

Xiao Chengxin is not a member of the Serious Crime Squad, and he still doesn't know how the two get along, so he stared at them for a while as if he was watching a psychopath, "Is it true that you can't live in the big bed room with the best conditions?"

Hua Chong drew a long tone: "No, stay."

Fool.Xiao Chengxin said in his heart, I can't live here, I wish you could not!

At this time, Zhang Mao and Li Xun also came back from outside.

Li Xun's visit this time didn't help much. The traces of ten years ago had already been burned away by a fire. Now that it's been so long, it's impossible for the village school to still have any information about the murder.

But Hua Chong still called him in the name of "what if".

"Flower team, we found something in the village elementary school." Zhang Mao was still sweating on his forehead. He didn't know whether he was excited or frightened.

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin immediately looked at Li Xun.

Xiao Cheng was startled, "Did you go to the village school just now?"

"We've been there all afternoon." Li Xun's clothes were a little dirty, with a lot of mud on them, "Looking for a place to talk?"

"Old Xiao." Hua Chong shouted.

Xiao Chengxin: "Huh?"

"Do you live in a picturesque big bed room?"

"If you don't stay, I will..."

"Then go to your big bed room." Hua Chong patted him on the back of the shoulder and said with a smile: "Go, open the room. I still have packed skewers here."

Facts have proved that the big bed room is actually not very good, not to mention that you can't see the outside scenery at night, and the shower in the bathroom can't get hot water.

Xiao Chengxin shrank to the side and was depressed. Several people in the serious crime team were already chatting while eating skewers.

"I picked this up near the teaching building." Li Xun took out an evidence bag, and inside it was a rusty thing that looked like a keychain.

Hua Chong took the evidence bag, it was so rusted that it could barely see its original appearance, "What is this?"

Liu Zhiqin also looked at it, "Did the former students leave it at the village primary school?"

"No, someone left it there no earlier than three years ago." Li Xun said seriously.

"Not earlier than three years ago?" Hua Chong frowned, "What is the basis for the judgment?"

"I thought it was a keychain." Li Xun said, "But Zhang Mao told me that it might be a pendant around the game."

"I also play games, but I'm not good at Qu Fu." Zhang Mao continued: "I took a photo and sent it to Qu Fu, and he said it was a character accessory from a popular online game a few years ago. Released three years ago."

"Has it rusted like this?" Hua Chong looked at the pendant with deep eyes, his mind spinning rapidly.

"It was half-buried in the soil. Luoguan Village lives in the mountains, and the climate is humid. It's not surprising that it is rusted to this extent." After Li Xun explained, he said, "I don't know if it has anything to do with the case. Let's take it with us first." Come back to show you. Also, there are some fuzzy and incomplete footprints in the village. These footprints are affected by the carrier and cannot be extracted, but judging from the freshness, someone should have entered the village within half a month. "

"Qian Lu said that the small village is basically a forbidden area in Luoguan Village." Liu Zhiqin leaned against the edge of the table, "Who would go inside?"

"Curious child?" Hua Chong asked.

Li Xun shook his head, "If it is a curious child, there is a high probability that it will be accompanied by signs of running and chasing, and it is unlikely that he went there alone. But those vague and incomplete footprints probably belong to only one person, and the steps are always steady. I think this person is an adult."

"It might be a tourist." Liu Zhiqin said, "Curious tourists who have heard about the tragedy."

Xiao Chengxin listened to their discussion for a while, and felt a little nervous, so he went to the bathroom to fix the shower and water heater. When he came out, everyone was ready to leave.

"Thanks for your hard work, rest early." Hua Chong said.

Back in his standard room, Hua Chong put the evidence bag on the table, and suddenly asked, "Is it possible that this was left by the murderer?"

Liu Zhiqin was taking off his clothes when he heard that his arms were stiff, exposing his waist and abdominal muscles.

When Hua Chong saw it, he became distracted.

Liu Zhiqin quickly changed into the T-shirt he wore for sleeping, "You mean, the murderer revisited his old place?"

"It's not impossible." Hua Chong shook his head very lightly, "But it's also possible that we overreacted and assumed too much."

Liu Zhiqin was silent for a few seconds, "I believe that the sudden appearance of something incompatible with the surrounding environment has its own meaning."

"You want to say that we can continue to assume?"

"It seems that apart from this, we have no other breakthrough for the time being." Liu Zhiqin said.

"Okay, since that's the case, let's sort out our thoughts now." Hua Chong took out the notepad that he carried with him, holding a pen in his hand, "This pendant is a game peripheral. I like playing games, and I am keen on buying character peripherals." Most of them are younger."

"Wait, let me check first." Liu Zhiqin opened the mobile browser, found the game, looked at it for a while and said, ""White Moon Black Blood" is an action online game that requires a lot of money from players, and the modeling is gorgeous , there are more male players than female players. However, due to the average playability, it quickly disappeared after becoming popular, and the player viscosity is low, and most of them follow suit."

"That's right, this kind of game is aimed at young users." Hua Chong said, "Look at the characteristics of the corresponding characters in this peripheral."

"Yeah." Liu Zhiqin said again: "Lin Zheng, the loli goddess of war, the most popular female character in "White Moon and Black Blood"."

Hua Chong closed his eyes and gave a "portrait" to the person who lost the pendant. "Two to three years ago, he should be about 17 years old, addicted to games, and a boy from a good family."

Liu Zhiqin put down his phone, "Then ten years ago, he was about 10 years old."

Hua Chong straightened up, "Who did you think of?"

"Qian Maojiang's third brother." Liu Zhiqin said, "Qian Chuangjiang."