traces of all things

"This thing is a carp scale." Lu Zheng stretched out a finger and pointed at the evidence bag: "It was found at the seam inside the woven bag."

Officer Xiao Hu gasped: "Wow, so this sack has carp in it—eh?"

At this point, he suddenly realized something: "That's not right, Team Leader Lu, what if the murderer just went to the market to buy a few fish? This is not counted."

Lu Zheng knew that he would ask such a question, so he directly brought a magnifying glass closer to signal them to come over and look: "Do you see the texture on this scale? These are the 'annual rings' of fish. There are as many rings as there are years old." There are only two textures on this fish scale, one of which is very light and can hardly be seen clearly, which means that the owner of this fish scale is only more than one year old and less than two years old, which is the so-called first-year-old fish. This is among carp They are relatively small, and are generally not sold in the market, and they are easy to lose money."

Officer Xiao Hu nodded with a serious expression: "It seems that the murderer probably fished it up and ate it himself?"

"Indeed." Lu Zheng said, "Maybe it was given as a gift. In short, this person related to the fishing industry must have some kind of connection with the murderer."

Having said that, Lu Zheng suddenly added as if he remembered something:

"I just thought about the scene of the crime carefully. Apart from the fact that the murderer was male and wearing dark blue clothes, I also remembered one detail - I didn't hear his voice, but my mother stopped. He should know my mother, or he should know sign language! My mother is congenitally disabled and cannot speak. Although she has hearing, she needs to shout loudly in her ear. If it is someone she does not know, or If we didn't say hello to her, she was in a hurry to take us to the clinic, so she probably wouldn't stop."

As he spoke, his complexion darkened again, and he sighed, looking a bit melancholy: "It would be great if my younger brother was here. He was sitting on the front bumper at the time, so he should be able to see it more clearly. I Sitting in the back seat, most of the sight is blocked...but now I don't know where my brother is."

Xiao Hu's expression was a little stiff just now, and he glanced at Tang Shaoyuan next to him as if asking for help.

Knowing that I am not very good at talking, I should choose to shut up at this time...

"Senior brother." Seeing this, Tang Shaoyuan got up and walked to Lu Zheng's side, put his hands on his shoulders, and looked straight into his eyes: "We can find it. As long as we catch the murderer—where Ah Zhi went, the murderer must be I know, believe me, he must be waiting for you somewhere in the world."

"That's right!" Officer Xiao Hu heard this, and suddenly raised his hands full of chicken blood, wanting to give the two people a passionate high-five: "I raised fish 25 years ago and lived near Dashui Township. It won't take long! We can do it!"

After a few seconds.

A gust of cold wind blows.

Officer Xiao Hu, who didn't respond, clenched his fists in embarrassment and stood there.

The two people in front of them didn't hear his passionate declaration at all, but were completely immersed in the other side's small world.

"I'll look for it with you. China is only so big. Let's find it little by little." Tang Shaoyuan said firmly, his hands slipped from Lu Zheng's shoulders, and he tightly grasped his fingers .

"Shao Yuan..." Lu Zheng looked at the opposite person with bright eyes, his face moved, and he couldn't help shaking back: "I really don't know how to thank you."

"You never have to say thank you to me." Tang Shaoyuan blushed suddenly, and looked away a little shyly: "It was you who saved me... Without you, I would not be where I am today..."

"Your business...is my business."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere was right for a while.

Police officer Xiaohu who has been ignored for a long time and has grown mushrooms: ... Let me show you how to disappear in place.

**

Dashui Township has a small population. With the two clues provided by Lu Zheng, the investigation progressed rapidly. It didn't take long for the investigators to find the first suspect and bring back the news.

"Suspicious, too suspicious." Officer Xiao Hu looked at the information and muttered to himself, "I think it's probably this person."

Thinking of this, Xiao Hu excitedly said to Lu Zheng: "Leader Lu, sure enough, there are not many people raising fish in Dashui Township, and there are even fewer people who raised fish 25 years ago. We investigated a lot , found that during that period of time, fish farming was also farming, and the addition of these characteristics of sign language, there was only one person who met all the conditions."

While talking, he pushed over a household registration form: "Dai Xiangming, 58 years old, is a big farmer in Dashui Township. When he was 23 to 30 years old, he once opened a pond to raise fish. He is disabled. Born deaf and dumb, and illiterate, but because he is more willing to endure hardships and use his brains, he got rich through hard work, and even won the model worker medal in the village."

At this moment, Lu Zheng's heartbeat accelerated instantly. He stared straight at the photo on the household registration information, trying to find any trace of this person in his mind.

……

The shadow of a dark blue strong man flashed past, grabbed the woman by the hair, and dragged her out of the car.

It should be very painful.

But she couldn't speak, she couldn't call for help, she could only let out a painful hoarse moan from her throat.

In sporadic clips, he also remembers a lock of bloody hair floating across his face.

Then what did he do?

Yes, he screamed and jumped up, biting the man's wrist, there was a smell of rust, it should be biting into the flesh——

Then a brick hit, a pain in the forehead, and the whole world went black.

Where is Ah Zhi sitting on the front bumper?what did he seeWas he stunned like himself?

Thinking of the tragic situation of Cuiping's corpse being dismembered, Lu Zheng's forehead began to throb with pain again.

Soon, the man in the household registration photo appeared in front of him.

Dai Xiangming in the restraint chair looked a little confused and a little nervous. He had a simple square face, black and red complexion, short and stocky, and a classic honest look.The skin on his hands was a little cracked. Lu Zheng squinted his eyes and took a closer look at his wrists. They were too rough. In addition, Dai Xiangming was quite old and had many wrinkles. No scars could be seen.

However, 25 years have passed, and the child does not have much strength. It is completely normal for the wound to heal and the scar to disappear.

Lu Zheng walked forward, stood in the restricted area, and looked directly at Dai Xiangming.

Is this the person he most wants to see in 25 years?

Dai Xiangming also noticed a man not wearing a police uniform standing in front of him, raising a pair of frightened eyes.

The cloudy old eyes and the black and white round eyes looked at each other for a while.

Lu Zheng didn't see any abnormal emotions in his eyes.

Is it too long, have you forgotten?

"You... looking at my face, do you have anything to say?" He said abruptly.

Dai Xiangming in front of him shook his head vigorously, looking confused.

"That's right." Lu Zheng suddenly realized the stupid thing he did, and couldn't help laughing at himself.

Dai Xiangming is a deaf-mute, so he couldn't hear his question at all.

The interrogation began soon, and both Lu Zheng and Tang Shaoyuan were invited out. According to the regulations, they were only non-staff members of the Dashui Township Public Security Bureau at this time. They could assist in handling the case, but they could not directly participate in the interrogation.

The two found a place to sit outside the interrogation room, where they could see the real-time surveillance video in the interrogation room.

The interrogation room seemed quieter than usual. Since the suspect Dai Xiangming was unable to listen and listen, and was illiterate, he could not read a single character except his own name. Under such circumstances, there was no way to communicate. The Dashui Town Public Security Bureau followed the usual , A sign language teacher was invited from the Dashui Township School for the Deaf and Mute to be responsible for the translation work.

Several relevant personnel were in place, and there was a rustling sound in the interrogation room, and the interrogation officially began.

The interrogation went much smoother than Lu Zheng imagined.

With little effort, Dai Xiangming admitted the fact that he had committed a crime.

"I don't know that woman." The sign language teacher looked at Dai Xiangming's fluttering fingers, and translated: "I saw her riding a bicycle on the road and thought she was beautiful, so I wanted to rape her. She resisted fiercely. As soon as I got angry , and stabbed her to death."

"Did she have children with her at the time?"

The sign language teacher turned around and made a series of movements towards Dai Xiangming.

Dai Xiangming stretched out a middle finger and stuck it to his lips, then turned his palm upright, waved it from back to front twice on the side of his head, and stretched out two more fingers.

Lu Zheng outside the interrogation room suddenly felt a pain in his forehead.

This action, for some reason, made him feel strangely familiar.

"Dai Xiangming said that she has two children with her," said the sign language teacher.

"After killing the victim, what happened to her two young children?"

"I put people in sacks and threw them into the well. The two children were thrown in the field, and they were gone when I went back."

When Lu Zheng heard this, he couldn't help frowning.

He was indeed in a coma at the time, but according to Dai Xiangming, he didn't do anything to Ah Zhi. Wasn't he afraid that the child would run back to the village and tell the adults?Children of that age are already articulate enough.

And then he directly threw the two children in the field. There are not many people walking on that poplar path, so who appeared and took him and Ah Zhi away?How did that man manage to take the two little boys away together?

Lu Zheng always felt that Dai Xiangming's story was somewhat unreasonable.

The police officer Xiao Hu in the room had already extended the focus of the interrogation to the later male corpse.

"I didn't know this man either, but one day when I was walking on the road, I saw this man with a bag on his body. He seemed to be quite rich, so I beat him to death, snatched the bag, and threw him into the well."

"Where's that bag?"

"Burned."

Speaking of this, Dai Xiangming seemed to be agitated. He waved his arms and repeated several movements. He clenched his fists, punched his left fist with his right fist, then opened his palm upwards, and then drew a figure like "3" shape.

"What's wrong with him?" Police officer Xiao Hu noticed Dai Xiangming's strangeness.

The sign language teacher also seemed a little flustered: "He... is saying that he didn't mean it."

"Didn't it be intentional?" Officer Xiao Hu was overwhelmed by thunder: "They all killed people for money and sex, didn't they mean it?!"

Dai Xiangming seemed to be in a very irritable mood, and it was difficult to appease him for a while. The sign language teacher kept communicating with him, and sweat dripped down his face.

Lu Zheng sat silently outside the interrogation room, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he fell into deep thought as he watched the wild scene in the interrogation room.

Tang Shaoyuan could see that he was thinking about something, he didn't say anything to disturb him, he just looked at him quietly for a while, then went out to help him close the door, leaving him a quiet space.

"Are you... the police?" As soon as he closed the door, a woman's voice sounded behind him: "I saw the police's body search notice, and I think the person inside looks like my ex-husband."

The author has something to say:

Brother: I really don’t know how to thank you.

Junior Brother: Make a promise with your body!

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