traces of all things

"Comrade policeman, I'm really a law-abiding citizen and I've never done anything bad." A short, fat, balding man sat on the "tiger chair" with a flustered expression, sweat dripping from his shiny forehead .

"Don't be nervous, just answer our questions truthfully." Geng Zhizhong stuffed Li Hongping's ID photo over: "Do you know the person in the photo?"

Dou Wenchuan looked down, but didn't recognize it at the first glance. His small eyes looked carefully at the photo, and suddenly his body trembled: "Comrade policeman, I didn't go whoring..."

This seems to be remembered.

"You just need to answer whether you know her or not. If you know her, who is she and what does it have to do with you?" Geng Zhizhong paused, and comforted him: "Don't worry, we won't wrong you for what you didn't do."

After getting Geng Zhizhong's guarantee, Dou Wenchuan calmed down a lot, and without thinking much, he said like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube: "This person... is Meimei. I met her at KTV, and gradually became interesting. Later, Meimei After resigning, I bought a house for her to live in..."

Speaking of this, Dou Wenchuan nervously raised his eyes to look at the criminal police in front of him, and continued: "Later, my wife found out about this matter, and she came over to make a fuss and made me break up with Meimei. I gave Meimei 10 yuan as a breakup fee, but she found me after a while and said she was pregnant with my child."

"I was afraid that my wife would pay her to get rid of it if she found out about it. Meimei didn't want to, so she fought with me a few times and threatened me to tell my wife. I was scared, and then gave her money again. After several calls, she got the money and ran away, and I never saw her again."

Speaking of this, Dou Wenchuan coughed twice, as if he felt that it was not enough, and quickly added: "Comrade policeman, that's it, I regretted it later, you are all men, you must understand me? The mother at home The tiger is too terrifying, and that little girl Meimei seduced me again, and she did something wrong in this ignorance... Isn't this extramarital affair not considered a crime?"

Dou Wenchuan asked two "bars" in succession.He straightened his back, and it seemed as if he had regained his confidence.

**

"You are all men too, you must understand me?" Wei Xiongfeng winked and imitated Dou Wenchuan's expression in the office: "This man is disgusting!"

Tang Shaoyuan on the side also nodded. These two people usually want to choke every word, but now they have achieved an unprecedented unity of opinion on this criminal suspect.

Lu Zheng also felt that this Dou Wenchuan was really disgusting: "Regardless of his character, his suspicion cannot be ruled out."

Unfortunately, after 24 hours, Lu Zheng and the others did not find any direct evidence. According to the regulations, Dou Wenchuan was still released.

According to Dou Wenchuan, after he paid the last sum of money to Meimei, that is, Li Hongping, he was afraid of her entanglement, so he went to Qiong Province with his business partner to buy a house and speculate there. He stayed for a few months, but The problem is that Dou Wenchuan and his business partner went to Qiong Province by train together. Ten years ago, the real-name system had not been implemented for train tickets, so his words could not be verified.

After interrogating Dou Wenchuan, Lu Zheng and the others immediately contacted the business partner that Dou Wenchuan mentioned. The business partner clearly remembered this matter and patted his chest on the phone as a guarantee. It took half a year to come back, during which time he and Dou Wenchuan ate and lived together, almost never separated. Qiong Province is at the southernmost tip of China. If you go back to Province A, it will take nearly five hours to fly one way. Dou Wenchuan definitely didn’t crime time.

"Can you recall the exact time?"

"Uh, I just remember that I left in April and came back in September, and went home for the Mid-Autumn Festival."

It is really difficult for people to remember the events of ten years ago so clearly.

A group of several people seems to have entered a dead end again. Now there are arresters and suspects. However, there is still no evidence to convict them. It really makes people wonder what to do.

This early in the morning, Lu Zheng sat in front of the table again and pressed his painful forehead.

He has been working continuously for more than a week, and his sleep time is seriously insufficient. Even though his health is as good as his, it is quite unbearable.Ignoring his body's protest, Lu Zheng opened the work notes that he kept with him, and began to sort out the case again from beginning to end.

In the middle of the white paper was written the word Li Hongping, surrounded by a circle, branches stretched out like sprouts, and a person's name was written at the end of each arrow.

"Father" - cold relationship, several economic disputes

"Stepmother" - the relationship is stiff, she once quarreled with Li Hongping in the street

"Li Dali" - childhood sweetheart, suspected emotional entanglement

"Dou Wenchuan" - mistress, suspected of extortion

"Wife of Dou Wenchuan" - her husband's mistress, once had the behavior of finding someone to teach Li Hongping a lesson

"KTV manager" - job competition, jealousy

After sorting out every relationship, Lu Zheng drew a three-pronged arrow next to Li Hongping's name, with "Child" written on one end.

On the other end it says "the biological father of the child", with a huge question mark on it by the way.

That's right, after Dou Wenchuan was interrogated, Tang Shaoyuan took his blood sample and put it in the warehouse. The DNA comparison result surprised everyone - Dou Wenchuan was not the father of the child.

However, judging from the time of death, Li Hongping did die after threatening Dou Wenchuan with the child in her womb. There are two possibilities. One is that Li Hongping herself did not know who the father of the child was and had a misunderstanding; The second is that Li Hongping deceived Dou Wenchuan in order to seek money after she became pregnant.

After that, in the thick fog, there must be another man who has a close relationship with her.

and many more.

Lu Zheng suddenly jumped up from his seat, with a big movement, which startled Tang Shaoyuan and Wei Xiongfeng next to him.However, he didn't care. He flicked through his notebook, picked up the phone, found a phone number and called.

"Okay, is the B-ultrasound sheet? Do you have any impression of the specific hospital?"

"Can you be sure?"

"Okay, thanks, bye."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zheng picked up the notebook and keys on the table, and lightly patted Wei Xiongfeng on the head: "Go, Xiongfeng, Shao Yuan, let's solve the case."

Wei Xiongfeng stood up slowly in a daze, and was dragged out of the door by Tang Shaoyuan in the next second: "Be quick and follow up."

**

Dayu County No.1 People's Hospital.

"It's all here. It's all old medical records from ten years ago. It's a little hard to find, sorry." The person in charge of the hospital directed several staff members to place thick stacks of documents on the table in front of them. Lu Zheng said politely After shaking hands with him, he turned around and assigned work to a group of scouts who came with him.

There was the sound of flipping papers in the small meeting room.

Lu Zheng also found a place to sit down, holding a pile of old medical records that had turned yellow and brittle, and began to flip through them.

As the sun rose, when the noon scorching sun shone through the window, a young investigator from the Dayu County Public Security Bureau suddenly jumped up excitedly: "Here is it!"

Almost before the words fell, Tang Shaoyuan at the other end of the meeting room also said calmly: "I also found a copy here."

To be on the safe side, Lu Zheng took the investigators through all the medical records provided by the hospital, and they didn't finish all the records until the afternoon. Except for the two medical records dug out earlier, there was nothing else to gain.

After carefully preserving the physical evidence, Lu Zheng received a call as soon as he got into the car.

"Hello, Officer Lu! I've been thinking about the trip to Qiong Province with Lao Dou for the past two days, and I remembered something. At that time, we were going to drive to the provincial capital, and then take the train to go south. On the day we were about to set off, there was a sudden thick fog. Oh, I have never seen such a thick fog in my life. I couldn’t see people two meters away! We couldn’t go on the highway, so we waited until the fog cleared the next day. Just set off!"

Lu Zheng's heart suddenly jumped, and after hanging up the phone, he poked his head up from the back seat.

"Nobita, turn around, let's go to the provincial weather bureau first!"

**

At eight o'clock in the evening, the meeting room of the Dayu County Public Security Bureau.

Lu Zheng looked at Geng Zhizhong and Fan Xinyu who were standing with their chests crossed in front of them, and sucked several pieces of paper in the evidence bag onto the whiteboard one by one with a magnet.

"Dou Wenchuan was not the murderer of Li Hongping, the real murderer was someone else."

As soon as the words fell, Geng Zhizhong and Fan Xinyu stood up straight seriously.

"According to the testimony of Dou Wenchuan's friend, ten years ago, the two of them left Province A and went south in April to do business in Qiong Province. On February 1 years ago, Li Hongping came here for a physical examination and confirmed the fact that she was three months pregnant. Shao Yuan's autopsy showed that the fetus was five months old when the victim died, so that means, Li Hongping was murdered between March and April ten years ago."

"At the same time, Dou Wenchuan's friend added testimony that the date of their departure was the day after Dayu County's once-in-a-decade foggy day. We checked the records at the Meteorological Bureau of the provincial capital. Dayu County itself There are very few days of heavy fog. Ten years ago, during the six months from January to June, there was only one day of heavy fog, which even led to highway closures-that day was April 4! This is the same as Dou Wenchuan’s friend The April departure to the south in the testimony is consistent, so it is said that Dou Wenchuan left for Qiong Province on April 9."

Geng Zhizhong nodded: "Very good, but this timing is rather embarrassing. Dou Wenchuan could have killed Li Hongping before April 4, for example, at the end of March. This does not contradict the inferred time of death."

Lu Zheng smiled, paused for a moment, and continued to add: "So we checked all the obstetrics and gynecology cases that year, and Shao Yuan also found another record - that is, on April 4th, Li Hongping once Because of stomach discomfort, I went to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of No.13 Civilian Hospital again, and this is the medical record at that time! At this time, Dou Wenchuan was already on the train going south, and did not return to Province A until September. In this way, he There is no time for committing the crime, and the suspicion can be ruled out."

Captain Fan Xinyu was very excited after hearing this, and said "yes" several times.Putting on the glasses in his pocket, he looked at the medical form again and again: "Thank you, Team Leader Lu, thank you for your hard work!"

"It's all thanks to the brothers." Lu Zheng smiled and didn't receive the credit: "Not only Shao Yuan and Daxiong, but also the young police officers in the Dayu Bureau have contributed a lot."

"Yes, very good!" Boss Geng's face was dark and red, and he paced around the meeting room a few times, then suddenly frowned: "Now the most suspected Dou Wenchuan has been ruled out, Captain Fan and I are targeting Li Hongping. The investigations of other male-female relationships in the company have also yielded no results, and we have to start looking for suspects again."

"Boss, I actually have a new suspect regarding this case." Lu Zheng raised his head, his eyes burning, "I want to apply for a search warrant for Li Dali's residence."