traces of all things

"Mag, let me ask again, where were you and what were you doing between [-] pm and [-] pm on the day of the crime?"

"I'm staying home and watching TV."

Mag sitting in the interrogation room looked very weary and pitiful, but when he thought that he might be involved in such a brutal murder case, the hearts of everyone in the interrogation area couldn't soften.

Now Mag's suspicion of committing the crime is gradually rising amid the scrutiny of everyone in the city bureau. A CD with the content of "posting and adding officials" was found in his home. His physical defects fit the description of the murderer. , There are still some scratch marks on his neck that haven't disappeared yet.

Although no male DNA was detected in Jiang Yixiang's fingernails, it still seemed very subtle at this critical point in time.

"I advise you not to lie to us." Geng Zhizhong stared at him with piercing eyes, looking very intimidating: "We have already obtained definite evidence. At the time when the crime happened, there was no one in your family."

"Are you sure you want to fight against us?" Xian Hongru played the role of earnestness this time. He got up and swayed around in front of Mag twice. The light reflected by the police badge made Mag's eyes sour: "Really , Mag, speak out, speak out some things, you are also relaxed, and we are also relaxed."

Mag had long been unable to hold on during the continuous professional interrogation, and now he finally bowed his head after hearing Xian Hongru's words.

It's just that this confession is a little different from everyone's expectations.

**

"Hey, this Mag, I can't usually do it myself, but I don't believe in fate. I don't go to the doctor, but I always think that I can use it more. I usually like to watch some colorful movies, and I also like to hook up with some female netizens, or flirt. Little girl, in short, the relationship between the sexes is relatively casual." When Geng Zhizhong spoke, his expression was a bit indescribable: "Then, he couldn't really go into battle, and in the end they broke up unhappy. A while ago he hooked up Fucked a married woman in the village—”

Seeing some subtle changes in everyone's expressions, Geng Zhizhong sighed helplessly: "That's what you think, the whistleblower."

Wei Xiongfeng smiled very unkindly: "Okay, so it's because he went out to have an affair with someone, but it didn't work. He was rejected by a married woman, and then he did something? He was beaten by a woman? And then he was beaten by a woman? Reported?"

"Yes, the person who had the affair, that is, the whistleblower was the wife of the village tyrant. Mag was afraid that the village tyrant would find out and deal with him after telling the truth, so he refused to tell." Geng Zhizhong shook his head, speechless. : "We confirmed with the whistleblower just now, and the whistleblower finally let go and admitted that he was indeed with Mag all the time that night."

In this way, Mag's alibi was confirmed, and the city bureau also sent him home, but he had to deal with a lot of things in his house, and the anti-pornography and anti-illegal office soon ushered in a visit .

The case went round and round, and returned to the original point.

Lu Zheng bit his lip and sat in the office, pointed at the notebook in front of him and said, "Since Mag didn't show up at the scene of the crime at that time, it must not be him who the four children saw."

His pen tapped and tapped on the table, making a sound of "duk, duk, duk".

No one in the office spoke for a while, and they all fell into deep thought.

Sitting there, Lu Zheng felt that the sound of the pen in his hand was somewhat familiar.

Where did you hear it?

I always feel that it has something to do with the case.

When I was searching hard in my mind, suddenly the sound of the pen seemed to be amplified countless times, and it was uploaded from the corridor.

"Duk, Tuk, Tuk"

Lu Zheng stood up abruptly from his seat, but saw a neat figure pushing the door open and coming in.

It was the iron lady of the Municipal Bureau, Captain Huang Ying.

"Everyone, we have new clues." Huang Ying shook the notebook in her hand: "We found an eyewitness. During the time of the incident, the gatekeeper of Wenyuan Elementary School went to the bathroom. The school gate went out, but he thought that Han Lei was going to go shopping at the night market to buy fruit, so he didn't ask aloud."

**

"Team leader, what did you think of just now?" Wei Xiongfeng asked curiously looking at Lu Zheng's excited expression.

At this time, they were on their way to Wenyuan Primary School. They tried to contact Han Lei just now, but Han Lei's cell phone was unanswered. Since the case was urgent and today was a working day, the members of the task force decided to go directly to Wenyuan to find someone to ask. inquire.

"I just heard the sound of Captain Huang Ying's shoes, and suddenly remembered, didn't I always think that Han Lei was not tall enough to step on Jiang Yixiang's bicycle pedal? Then I suddenly realized that the person who came to the city bureau to inquire At that time, Han Lei was wearing flat shoes, about 1.7 meters tall, but when we went to check Han Lei and Jiang Yixiang’s dormitory that day, I saw many pairs of high heels and wedges under Han Lei’s bed. If we say If Han Lei was wearing wedge-heeled shoes, then he could just step on the pedals."

"Then between Han Lei and Jiang Yixiang, I have always felt a little weird. First of all, there was a quarrel in the afternoon of the incident. We were going to follow up here, but because there were clear suspects provided by four students at that time Putting it on hold for a while, then leaving the school gate in the middle of the night, and then Han Lei put Jiang Yixiang's photo under the pillow—so I guess—”

Lu Zheng paused, but still expressed his conjecture: "You guys think, is it possible that Han Lei and Jiang Yixiang have some emotions beyond friendship?"

"You mean—" Wei Xiongfeng's eyes widened in surprise.

"It's possible." Tang Shaoyuan interrupted suddenly: "The murderer violated the deceased with his fingers. In addition to the explanation of sexual dysfunction, it can also be explained that the murderer has no corresponding organs."

When Wei Xiongfeng heard the words, he instantly felt a chill in his crotch.

"If you say it's a woman, it's over. If you insist on saying that you don't have organs, it sounds horrible." He muttered, rubbing the goose bumps on his arms.

"It's so imprecise." Tang Shaoyuan said with a straight face: "Men must have organs?"

Wei Xiongfeng: ...you won.

**

When we arrived at Wenyuan Elementary School again, the school was already over, probably because something happened on Xiaocang Mountain a while ago, and now the students are unwilling to go up the mountain to play, and all the honest ones were escorted back to the dormitory by the principal .

The campus seemed quieter than usual.

However, when Lu Zheng and the others walked to the middle of the playground, a commotion suddenly came from a corner of the school.

"What's going on!" Captain Huang immediately rushed forward with his people.

At this moment, Kong Guoan, the assistant teacher, rushed over in a daze. When he saw the policemen, he yelled in a panic: "Police! Police! Save Xiao Han! There's a lot of blood!"

**

Wenya Hospital in the provincial capital.

Just now at Wenyuan Elementary School, Kong Guoan's words frightened everyone. They thought it was someone's life. Captain Huang Ying broke in with a few criminal policemen and found Han Lei lying on the bed with a fruit in one hand. The knife, the wrist of the other hand is full of scratches, and the blood is gurgling out, staining the whole bed sheet.

Han Lei was rushed to the hospital immediately.

"What's going on?" Lu Zheng, who stayed behind to do the aftermath, asked Kong Guoan.

Kong Guoan seemed to be still in fright. His body shook uncontrollably, and he murmured, "Isn't he dead? That's great... Oh my god, I just wanted to chat with Xiao Han after dinner." , but no one answered when I came to knock on the door. Didn’t someone die before? I'm dead—"

After comforting Kong Guoan and other people present, Lu Zheng handed over the scene to the police who rushed over, and rushed to the hospital with a few younger brothers.

The emergency doctor had already done a good job of stopping the bleeding for Han Lei at this moment, and was talking to captain Huang Ying at the moment. doctor.

"The time of delivery was very timely." The doctor said: "The blood loss is relatively large, but the person's life is no longer in danger."

"That's good, thank you doctor, thank you for your hard work. We will notify her family right away." Captain Huang Ying nodded and said.

"It's not hard, this is what we should do." The doctor brought back the mask: "But I suggest that it is best to take this patient to the psychiatric department for an examination. Her emotional state should not be very good. Swallowing sleeping pills to commit suicide came to our emergency department, and the stomach was washed, and it didn’t take long before she committed suicide again, so we need to pay more attention to her mental state.”

"Wait, I'm sorry, doctor." Hearing this, Lu Zheng frowned suddenly: "Do you still remember the time period when this patient committed suicide by swallowing sleeping pills and came to the hospital for treatment?"

The doctor nodded when he heard the words: "It was about four days ago. I happened to be on duty that day. She came after dinner. After she came, she was treated with gastric lavage, and she didn't go back until midnight."

Four days ago.

It was the day Jiang Yixiang was murdered!

**

"...The other day Yixiang said that her mother introduced her to someone, and she was going back to go on a blind date. I was suddenly unhappy. I don't know why, but I just didn't want her to get married. I wanted to live with her forever." Han Lei Lying on the hospital bed, he said very weakly: "What's so good about a man? Why do people have to get married? I hate men the most. Every one is like Kong Guoan. They are smelly and ugly, and they think they are great." , I probably don’t even cook when I get home, maybe I’m getting married just to find a free nanny... It’s boring, only Yixiang makes me feel that there is really a perfect person in the world, and being with her is caring and happy, Isn't it enough just the two of us?..."

"So you had a fight?"

Han Lei began to cry again: "I shouldn't have quarreled with her. But she just said something, people have to have their own lives, and told me not to rely too much on my friends. The more I listened, the more angry I became, and I wanted to talk to her She made a fuss, but in the end she left, told me to calm down, and then didn't come back... If I apologized to her and let her stay, maybe she wouldn't leave, and nothing would happen."

"Then why are you taking sleeping pills at night?"

"I don't know either." Han Lei turned over with a gloomy face: "I talked to Kong Guoan for a while that day, and I was so sick that I wanted to vomit. I wanted to sleep when I came back, but I couldn't sleep, so I took a few sleeping pills." , I don’t know why it doesn’t work, the more I eat, the more I feel uncomfortable, but I just want to make myself feel uncomfortable, I want Yixiang to feel sorry for me, until I can’t stand it anymore, Yixiang didn’t come back, I think it’s so painful to die Yes, I went to the hospital to wash my stomach."

Han Lei was lying sickly on the bed, seemingly without the will to survive.Lu Zheng and Captain Huang Ying called Han Lei's family, but no one answered, only one brother who answered the phone said that he was too busy and couldn't make it.

After hanging up the phone and looking at the pale Han Lei, Lu Zheng sighed a long time.

Probably due to the lack of love in the growing environment, Han Lei developed a morbid dependence on Jiang Yixiang's care and warmth. Over time, she couldn't tell whether she was living for herself or because of this dependence. .

Han Lei's suspicion was ruled out by the hospital's doctors. During the period when Jiang Yixiang was victimized, Han Lei had been receiving treatment in the hospital and had no time to commit crimes.

In this way, going round and round, the key to solving the case seems to return to the eyewitness testimony of the four students.

It's just who this person is. Up to now, more than a thousand men of suitable age around Xiaocang Mountain have been searched through blanket investigations, and no new suspects have been found.

Lu Zheng rubbed his sore forehead, and his gaze involuntarily fell on the small cabinet next to Han Lei's hospital bed.

On the cabinet is a photo that the doctor just took off from Han Lei. She refused to let go until she was sent to the emergency room. The photo shows Han Lei and Jiang Yixiang wearing clothes with ethnic characteristics, in a similar A group photo of girlfriends taken in a tourist attraction.

There is also a line of words written with a soft-tipped pen on the top of the group photo:

"Gift to the best Leilei, may the friendship last forever!"

Lu Zheng fixed his eyes on the word "Zhu", and the hand that was rubbing his forehead suddenly stopped moving.