heart poison

When Liu Zhiqin rushed back to Luoguan Village from Ming Province non-stop, Hua Chong was asking Qian Baotian about the situation when building the red house.

That house was not included in the unified planning of the village, and it was originally an "illegal building". Before the town government turned a blind eye, Qian Baotian was happy to make money. Now he heard that there might be buried under the red house related to the murder case. Things, immediately frightened out of their wits, watching everyone tear down their red house to attract guests.

But at the end of the dismantling, nothing was found in the pit below.

Qian Baotian complained in his heart, but he had no reason to engage in "illegal construction", besides, the place was indeed a place where one household registration was lost, so he was the only one who was bold enough to run a business to make a fortune. He also retreated, even if he had a hundred courage, he would not dare to continue selling souvenirs there.

"Selling souvenirs is my daughter's idea. She lives in the city now. Don't bother her. She has nothing to do with this matter." Qian Baotian smoked a leaf cigarette, frowning, showing bitter hatred. Shen said, "It was my idea to build the house here. Isn't this other place occupied by people? Only this area no one dares to build a house, and the village chief didn't say anything."

Liu Zhiqin couldn't get used to the smell of leaf cigarettes, so he took out two cigarettes from the cigarette case and handed them to Qian Baotian.

Qian Baotian took the cigarette, lit it up and smoked it, and pointed to the pit behind him, "This wooden house is only one floor, and there are no people to live in. You don't need to build those complicated foundations, just lay a few piles. Our own family built it. Nothing was dug up. But..."

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Hua Chong asked, "But what?"

Qian Baotian scratched his neck, "There was a tree there, I don't know who planted it, it was just a sapling, it looked like it was going to die. I wanted to dig it up before building the house. It was transplanted next to the house. When I looked at it later, the saplings were gone. This saved me trouble.”

Hua Chong immediately thought that the urn might be buried under the sapling.But before Qian Baotian built a house there, someone dug the urn out of the ground.

Who is this person?

It couldn't be Zou Ming, otherwise he couldn't have made a special trip to the Red House that day.In his cognition, Liu Xuchen's urn is still under the red house, and the red house happens to be a perfect tombstone - it is beautiful, popular, full of lively young people every day, these people accompany Liu Xuchen , so that Liu Xuchen, who is also young and forever young, will not be lonely.

This thought made Hua Chong feel extremely uncomfortable, even chills in his heart.

If it wasn't Zou Ming, then it could only be Qian Chuangjiang.

Two years ago, Qian Baotian had a "whimsical idea" to open a store in Liu's house to sell tourist souvenirs, and he did what he said.Qian Chuangjiang knew that Zou Ming buried Liu Xuchen's urn there, and informed Zou Ming in some way.Zou Ming thought that he should follow the plan and use the house above as a tombstone. Anyway, the urn was buried very deep, and there was no risk of being dug out due to construction.But Qian Chuangjiang may have a different idea from his. Before Qian Baotian started construction, he pulled out the saplings, dug out the urn, and hid it in another place.

Only Qian Chuangjiang knew where the urn was.

To this day, Zou Ming still thinks that his brother is still sleeping peacefully under the red house like a fairytale cottage.

Ask Xiao Chengxin to send Qian Baotian home, and Hua Chong tells Liu Zhiqin what he just thought.Liu Zhiqin squatted by the side of the messily dug earth pit. After smoking a cigarette, he stood up, "This is a breakthrough."

Hua Chong understood, "Bring Zou Ming here and let him see with his own eyes—his brother's urn is gone."

"For him, Liu Xuchen's urn is the most important thing. If the urn is missing, his emotions will inevitably show flaws, and he may collapse." Liu Zhiqin said.

Hua Chong thought for a while, "But before that, I have to confirm one thing with Qian Chuangjiang—the urn was indeed buried here before."

"It should be." Liu Zhiqin nodded, "This case lacks key evidence now, and our speculation alone is not enough to bring the murderer to justice."

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"Urn? I don't know." Qian Chuangjiang lowered his head and frequently picked his nails.

"Look in the mirror before you lie." Hua Chong pierced it mercilessly, "You look like 'don't know'? Qian Laosan, what you did and didn't do, I know it, and you know it too. You want to give If someone is guilty, just cooperate with me honestly. If you want to protect someone, I fucking want to solve this case as soon as possible. If you don’t say anything, that’s fine. I will continue to investigate at worst. No matter how long it takes, I will find the murderer. come out."

Qian Chuangjiang's shoulders stiffened, he raised his eyelids, and looked at Hua Chong.

"Do you think my mother wants to hang around here?" Hua Chong looked impatient, pointing his index finger upwards, "The task given by the superior, when will the murderer be caught, and when will I go back."

Liu Zhiqin stared into Qian Chuangjiang's eyes, and his voice was almost bewitching: "Liu Xuchen saved you, he is your benefactor. He was killed in Xiancheng. After you learned the truth back then, you took away his The urn, and wanted to avenge him—revenge for him and revenge for the whole village are not in conflict, you are very smart, while burning Zhou Liangjia and the three of you to death, you also destroyed the future of Luoguan Village.”

Qian Chuangjiang repeated the movement of pursing his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but he was still thinking.

Liu Zhiqin spoke slowly, "Last time you said that outside the wooden house in the village, you heard a boy crying. That boy is Liu Xuchen's younger brother, Liu Zhanfei, right?"

Qian Chuangjiang raised his head abruptly, his lips trembling.

"At that time, you were still young, not strong enough, and not so brave. You didn't dare to run into the wooden house to stop your elder brother, and you couldn't save the boy who was younger than you." Liu Zhiqin raised his head slightly as he spoke. His jaw paused for a few seconds, and he said calmly: "Later, he died, in the cold winter, he was frozen to death alone in the river."

This sentence is like a hammer that settles everything.

Qian Chuangjiang finally opened his mouth and let out a hoarse and difficult voice: "I..."

"Think about it slowly. We'll just wait here." Liu Zhiqin showed an emotionless smile, "Remember, like you, we also hope that this case will be closed as soon as possible. We need a murderer , understand? We are 'needing a murderer', not necessarily 'catching a murderer'. And you happen to be this murderer. I think we can cooperate."

Qian Chuangjiang took a few deep breaths, his eyes were still dull, but there was a faint gleam of light in his eyes.

"Now tell me, did Liu Xuchen save you?" Hua Chong asked.

Half a minute later, Qian Chuangjiang nodded, "Yes."

"His urn, did you bring it back from Zhoushan Cemetery?"

"Yes."

"You buried the urn at Liu's house, hoping that he would be buried in peace until Qian Baotian built a house there?"

Qian Chuangjiang was silent for a long time, "Yes."

"What about the urn?" Hua Chong couldn't help leaning forward, "Where is the urn now?"

The atmosphere in the police room was almost frozen, and everyone's heartbeat was accelerating.

"I am the murderer." Qian Chuangjiang said suddenly, "I killed Zhou Liangjia, Sheng Feixiang, and Fan Miao. Yuan Feifei helped me, but she didn't know what I would do to them."

In this short sentence, he almost said it word by word.

Hua Chong understood what he meant—he was asking for a promise!

"Yes, you are the murderer." Hua Chong said: "You killed the person, it has nothing to do with other people."

Hearing this, Qian Chuangjiang seemed relieved.

He didn't know that he was walking towards the "trap" set up by the criminal police step by step.

"I, I don't know where the safest place is." Qian Chuangjiang said, "Luoguan Village is full of guests, even Xulu Mountain is not safe. I..."

Hua Chong suddenly thought of a place, "Did you bury the urn in the old village?"

Liu Zhiqin's eyebrows twitched inadvertently, impressed by Hua Chong's reaction.

Qian Chuangjiang nodded, "Well, it's on the west side of the teaching building. Well, basically no one will go there."

Outside the police station, Li Xun, who got the news, immediately took people to the old village.

Hua Chong's hand under the table suddenly clenched into a fist, and Liu Zhiqin noticed his small movements, and his false smile gradually became warm.

"I am the murderer." Qian Chuangjiang emphasized again, "I killed someone. I have motives, two, two motives. You can, you can close the case."

Hua Chong stood up and did not immediately tell him the truth of the conversation just now.Liu Zhiqin also stood up and said in a low voice, "Let's go, let's go to the village school."

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On the west side of the village primary school building, an old urn was dug out.

On one side of the urn was sealed a photo smaller than a child's palm.The photo was yellowed and faded, and the man on it was very young.

"Liu Xuchen..." Hua Chong, wearing gloves, carefully picked up the urn.The box is a material that is very easy to store fingerprints, but after too long, the fingerprints attached to it may not still exist.

"I'll take it for inspection right away," Li Xun said.

"Wait." Liu Zhiqin pointed to the urn, "Open it first and have a look."

"This..." Xiao Chengxin was a little panicked, "Aside from the ashes, is there anything else in it?"

"It's hard to say. After the cremation, the funeral director must have put the ashes in the box directly. But this kind of box..." Hua Chong looked at the line where the box body and the box cover fit together, and said: "After sealing the cover, there is still a box. can be opened directly."

While speaking, Li Xun had already lifted the lid of the box, and a few seconds later, a box of ashes and broken bones appeared in front of everyone.

Li Xun reached into the ashes with his gloved hand, searched for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's not convenient to operate here."

Hua Chong said: "Okay, you take the urn back first."

Li Xun tidied up neatly, and strode towards the police station with two other members of the trace inspection department. After taking a few steps, he turned around and said, "Flower team, I remembered something!"

"Ok?"

"Didn't Zhang Mao and I find a pendant when we first came to the village?" Li Xun said, "It's near here!"

Hua Chong immediately looked at Liu Zhiqin.

Xiao Chengxin also knew about the pendant, but he didn't want to understand the relationship between it, so he asked in a low voice, "Why, what's the matter?"

"The red house was built two years ago, and the time Qian Chuangjiang transferred the urn must have been before the construction of the red house started." Hua Chong said: "The last time we analyzed, the pendant fell no earlier than three Years ago, the two had no conflict in time. What was that game called?"

""White Moon and Black Blood"." Liu Zhiqin said: "The character is called Lin Zheng, a loli goddess of war. I checked Qian Chuangjiang's computer and all communication equipment, and he has indeed played "White Moon and Black Blood". But there is not much time to go online. There is no such pendant in the online shopping record, but it does not rule out that he bought it in another form."

Xiao Chengxin said, "That pendant belongs to Qian Chuangjiang?"

Hua Chong stared at the ground with lowered eyes, and took a few steps, obviously thinking of a farther place.Suddenly, he raised his head and ordered: "Send someone to Zou Ming's place, and 'inadvertently' tell him that the police didn't know what clues they were looking for in Qian Baotian's red house, so they pushed the red house away, and dug the ground three times. feet, but found nothing."

"Who are you sending? Me?" Xiao Cheng asked sincerely.

"You can't, you need to find the masses." Hua Chong said decisively: "Go to Qian Baotian and let him cry in the corridor of the police station. Zou Ming is now in the police room on the second floor. As long as Qian Baotian's voice is loud enough, he can hear One thing - Liu Xuchen's urn is missing."

Xiao Chengxin finally snapped, "I'll do it now!"

Hua Chong turned to Liu Zhiqin, "About that pendant and the game "White Moon Black Blood", I suddenly thought of another possibility. If the pendant was indeed dropped by Qian Chuangjiang, then why did he have the pendant? He doesn't seem like someone who's keen to buy character merch at all, and this pendant was probably given to him by someone."

"Is this person Zou Ming?" Liu Zhiqin's mind raced, "Are they playing the same game?"

"Maybe for them, "White Moon Black Blood" is not just a game!" Hua Chong's eyes became extremely deep, "We may have obtained the key evidence!"

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When he saw the rusty pendant in the evidence bag, Qian Chuangjiang didn't react immediately. He stared at the bauble that could no longer be recognized for a long time, showing a confused look.

"Have you ever played a game called "White Moon Black Blood"?" Hua Chong nodded at the side of the evidence bag, "This is the surrounding characters from that game."

Qian Chuangjiang's pupils shrank suddenly, and his face turned pale.

Hua Chong played some tricks, and added embellishment: "Just now, we went to the west side of the small teaching building in the old village to look for the urn as you said. When we found the urn, we found this pendant next to it. No one goes to that place. However, the pendant should have accidentally dropped when you buried the urn?"

Qian Chuangjiang seemed very nervous, his eyes kept moving from side to side.

Hua Chong approached and asked again: "Is it yours?"

"Yes." Qian Chuangjiang said woodenly, the lines of his neck tensed.

"Like Lin Zheng?"

"what?"

"The character of this pendant is Lin Zheng, do you like her?"

"I like it!" Qian Chuangjiang nodded hurriedly, "I like it!"

Hua Chong squinted his eyes, showing a look of disbelief.

Qian Chuangjiang immediately emphasized: "I like it very much."

"You bought it yourself?"

"Yes!"

"where did you buy it?"

Qian Chuangjiang hesitated, "At...at..."

Hua Chong said: "At the comic exhibition? I heard that you young people like to go to the comic exhibition to buy things."

"Well, it's at the comic exhibition." Qian Chuangjiang said.

Hua Chong knows that Qian Chuangjiang is lying, but whether Qian Chuangjiang is telling the truth is not important now.It doesn't matter why Qian Chuangjiang took the blame.He has been able to confirm that the pendant was dropped by Qian Chuangjiang, and Qian Chuangjiang is trying his best to conceal the relationship between the pendant and Zou Ming.

Back then when he had no clue, Liu Zhiqin said something——

"A thing that is incompatible with the surrounding environment suddenly appears, and its appearance has its own meaning."

Now it seems that it is indeed the case!

It is a clue that does not have much information in itself, but what it points to may be enough evidence to convict the real culprit.

Now, Liu Zhiqin is searching for these possible evidences.

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When Qian Baotian was stopped by Xiao Chengxin again, his whole body was on the verge of collapse, and he almost knocked Xiao Chengxin on the head with Ye Ziyan's stick.

In front of other criminal policemen, he didn't dare to make a mistake, but when he was alone with Xiao Chengxin, he didn't have so many worries. He slapped his thigh and cursed: "That house of mine! It's standing there perfectly. Those from the town government The officials have never thought of it! You are good, you demolish it as soon as you say it, and you don’t leave me any time! You should notify me in advance so that I can be mentally prepared! I dare not pay compensation or anything Think about it, you say it is an 'illegal construction', it is an 'illegal construction', I am an ordinary person, how dare I argue with you? You all carry guns!"

Xiao Chengxin was yelled at one head and two big, "Nonsense! Look at me, I don't have a gun!"

"I spent a lot of money to build that house! I can only admit it! Forget it, it's useless to tell you, I have nothing to cooperate with you!"

"Yes, why not? Now, take the call you just said to the police station and talk again." Xiao Chengxin said, "We have to listen to the appeals of the masses, don't we?"

Qian Baotian stared suspiciously.

"Listen to me." Xiao Chengxin grabbed his shoulders, "When you get to the police station, just call like that..."

After hearing Xiao Chengxin's words, Qian Baotian was startled, "You want to kill me?"

"What am I cheating on you for? You just do what I tell you. As for me, I will try my best to get you some compensation. Can you?"

Qian Baotian did not believe that Xiao Chengxin could get any compensation, but it would be good to let off steam. After all, Xiao Chengxin said—you can go to the second floor to scold, the louder the better, and the more people you attract, the better. There will never be anyone to stop you.

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Zou Ming stood by the window, silently looking at Xulu Mountain.

The police station where he worked could not see the red house, nor could he see the abandoned old village.There was no warmth in his eyes, and his expression didn't look much different from usual.But he knew that his heart was beating a little fast.

The policeman named Hua Chong had already seen his secret, and even guessed what was buried under the red house.

This was completely beyond his expectation!

Fortunately, it doesn't matter, they have no proof.Over the years, I have been very cautious and did not leave any clues. The only insider, Qian Chuangjiang.

Thinking of Qian Chuangjiang, he smiled.

Qian Chuangjiang would not say anything.

If there is one person he trusts in this world, it is Qian Chuangjiang.

It took him more than ten minutes to reorganize the recent events to make sure that there were no leaks.The only problematic one is sevoflurane.Sevoflurane is so special that the police will definitely trace this line.And Zou Mei killed people with sevoflurane, and may continue to use sevoflurane to kill people.The police might find Zou Mei on her head.

But none of that matters.As long as I don't show my flaws...

His eyelids jumped up suddenly, he frowned fiercely, and raised his hand to press down on the jumping place.

No one knows better than himself that the thoughts just now are all self-deceiving comfort!

He has been exposed, has been pegged!

That's right, he has always been very careful, so careful that he never used ordinary communication tools to contact Qian Chuangjiang, never met Qian Chuangjiang in places where he had acquaintances, and every time he went to Xiancheng and Luoguan Village, he put in his best effort.He is well disguised, and "Liu Zhanfei" is already dead, as long as the police don't link him with Liu Zhanfei...

He gasped, his fingers began to tremble.

Did I misjudge the capabilities of the police?Why can the police check this far?They are not, are not...

Isn't it stupid?As stupid as Yuan Feifei?

Ten years ago, they searched the village all over, but did not find out the truth.Why did they change after ten years?

In my mind, it was the fire ten years ago.The policemen who came from the city had blurred faces, and they asked here and there. He and Qian Chuangjiang were just lying, and were excluded from the "related persons".

In the blink of an eye, the figures of the policemen merged together and became the same person. The facial features of that person became clear. He took a closer look and found that it was the policeman who had interrogated him not long ago.

The man's name was Hua Chong, and it was said that he was the leader of the serious crime team of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau.

He clenched his fists and heard his own heartbeat beating loudly.

It's okay, it's okay!He comforted himself guiltyly, so what if he thinks about it together?They have no proof!He is Mi Hao, an orphan without father and mother. He was adopted by Zou Mei at the age of 11 and renamed Zou Ming. He is not Liu Zhanfei. Liu Zhanfei was frozen to death long ago, and everyone in the village can prove it!

He propped his hands on the window sill, and because of too much force, there were not obvious blue veins on his arms.

Looking at his arm, he smiled wryly twice.

The head of the serious crime team probably didn't think he was like a kid who wandered and picked up waste since he was a child.Of course not!If it wasn't for Zhou Liangjia's hateful people, how could he be wandering around picking up waste?His family is very poor, but no matter how poor it is, it is a safe haven. He has no parents, and even his adoptive father died early, but he has an older brother.When his brother was still there, where did he live a life of scavenging?

He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, but it was useless. When he thought of his brother, he couldn't control the surging emotions. It was like this before, and it is still like this now!

But he knew that he couldn't have too many extreme behaviors. Although there was no one else in this police room, there must be monitoring equipment.My every move is in the eyes of those policemen.

He lowered his head, bit his lower lip lightly, turned around after a while, and walked like a chair.

At this time, he heard a burst of curses and complaints from outside, from far to near, from vague to clear.He couldn't help walking to the door, and when he heard what the visitor was cursing, the blood on his face faded instantly, and his shoulders began to tremble violently.

——"That's the house where my whole family made a living! You said it was demolished, so I fucking demolished it? Is there something buried under it? The house was also demolished, and the pit was dug. What's there? Isn't it just a pit with nothing in it? What is it called by your police? Ah? If there is something, I will endure it, but there is nothing in it! You make up an excuse to punish me, and it is easy to bully me when we are honest people in the countryside? You pay me for my house, Pay me for the house..."