traces of all things

"Ex-husband?" Tang Shaoyuan's eyebrows moved slightly.

"That's right, that's the notice about the body finding. It says he's about 55 years old, less than 1.7 meters tall, with short legs. He really looks like my ex-husband. He disappeared four years ago."

When Tang Shaoyuan heard about this situation, he didn't dare to be careless, and hurried in to find Lu Zheng.

At this time, the criminal police officers in charge of the case from the Dashui Township Public Security Bureau were basically in the interrogation room surrounding the irritable Dai Xiangming to appease the irritable Dai Xiangming. When Lu Zheng heard that the victim's family had come to his door, he didn't bother to think about the strange interrogation inside. Quickly got up and welcomed the woman in.

The woman sat down in the reception room. She looked a little older, about 50 to [-] years old, but she was very plump, not old, and her facial features were correct. She had the feeling of a hot and beautiful woman.

"Zhao Zizi went out four years ago and said he was going to do business. Who knows what happened, he didn't come back. It would be better if he didn't come back. I wanted to divorce him a long time ago. I don't see him doing serious things all day long. Knowing that gambling costs money, my son also inherited his long and short legs, and going to school makes people laugh." The beautiful woman looked unhappy: "He saw a notice outside the school saying that the dead one didn't know if it was him or not. Dad, you have to ask me to come and see, there is no way, think about the child's father is also here, so I came over by the way."

"The child's father?" Lu Zheng was taken aback, didn't he say that her ex-husband might be the deceased?

The beautiful woman guessed what he was surprised at, and added: "My current man, Yu Yong, works as a teacher in a school for the deaf and dumb. I heard that he will come to the police station to help today."

When she said this, the beautiful woman looked very proud, as if she was very proud of having a cultural husband.

"Ah, Mrs. Yu's wife." Lu Zheng thought of the sweaty sign language teacher Dai Xiangming was tossing around in the interrogation room, and felt that this job was really not easy, so he said pleasantly, "It's a pleasure to meet you. Mrs. Yu is still helping, maybe I have to It will take a while to come out."

Having said that, he added: "Would it be convenient for you to call your son? We can do a DNA comparison first."

"He's here together. Where did the little bastard go?" The beautiful woman turned her head only to find that her son was gone, she became furious, and before Lu Zheng could stop her, she heard her screaming, "Zhao Tianrui, where is he? Zhao Tianrui?! Come out for me!"

A chubby boy came in at the door. He had dark skin, small nose and small eyes. He didn't look much like his mother. He looked about sixteen or seventeen years old. My legs are a bit bad.

At this time, police officer Xiao Hu also came out of the interrogation room. Lu Zheng handed over the questioning of the beautiful woman to him, and together with Tang Shaoyuan, he took Zhao Tianrui to have a blood test.

While waiting for Tang Shaoyuan's test results, Lu Zheng stood and chatted with Zhao Tianrui in the corridor.

Zhao Tianrui was not very talkative, he was a little shy, basically Lu Zheng asked and answered each sentence, and kept playing with the hoodie strap on his body with his other hand.Even Lu Zheng, who can chat with everyone like this, also finds it a bit difficult.

Seeing Zhao Tianrui's hands constantly rubbing the hoodie straps, Lu Zheng couldn't help but follow his gaze, only to find that the lower end of Zhao Tianrui's hoodie straps was tied with two very beautiful knots, which were looped round and round. It looks like two little pendants.

"This kind of knot is quite special." Lu Zheng said, "Did you wear it on your clothes?"

"No."

Zhao Tianrui replied in a muffled voice.

The corridor fell into silence again, and Lu Zheng felt a little embarrassed for a while.

After dozens of seconds, Zhao Tianrui suddenly said, "I did it myself."

...the reflex arc is so long.

Lu Zheng laughed awkwardly twice: "Hands are very skillful."

Zhao Tianrui stopped talking again.

In a suffocating silence, Tang Shaoyuan finally came out of the DNA testing room. There was a child present, so it was inconvenient to say, so Lu Zheng gave him a look, and Tang Shaoyuan successfully received his signal, calmly Nodding slightly.

It seems that the deceased is indeed the ex-husband of the beautiful woman just now, and also the biological father of this Zhao Tianrui.

Lu Zheng sighed, and led the two of them back to the reception room.

When the beautiful woman in the reception room learned that her ex-husband had died, she didn't seem to be in any sad mood, but Zhao Tianrui's eye circles turned red visibly.

"My condolences." Seeing Zhao Tianrui's appearance, Xiao Hu sympathized with his father's death at a young age, and gave him a tissue.

Zhao Tianrui took the tissue and blew his nose loudly.

The beautiful woman had a look of resentment: "You cry for him, that person is not worthy of being your father!"

Lu Zheng on the side keenly captured the details in the beautiful woman's words: "Why do you say you are not worthy of being a father?"

There was a trace of panic in the beautiful woman's expression, but she quickly calmed down: "I'm not in the mood to sit around now, I knew about it very late, and it's none of my business—Zhao Laizi not only loves Gambling, and going out to sleep with Miss, he always told me to go out to do business, but in fact his business is not clean."

"What kind of unclean business?" Xiao Hu's expression became serious when he heard this.

"He's in the business of taking pictures of flowers." The beautiful woman muttered, emphasizing again: "It's really none of my business. If I knew it earlier, I would have divorced him long ago."

Pat Hanako!

Lu Zheng's heart jumped, and he always felt that he seemed to have overlooked something.

Countless details are scattered in my mind, like a bunch of discrete points, what is lacking now is only a line connecting all the points.

line.

thin line.

The image of the thin line in his mind gradually became plump and formed, and finally his gaze stopped on the strap of Zhao Tianrui's hoodie.

correct.

Knots on twine!

For a moment, it seemed that a spark ignited the fuse, and pieces of fireworks exploded in my mind.Lu Zheng pleaded guilty, rummaged in the drawer for a long time, grabbed two things and entered the interrogation room.

In the interrogation room, several criminal policemen from Dashui Township had suspended their arduous communication with Dai Xiangming. Sign language teacher Yu Yong stood by the restraint chair, looking a bit exhausted.

Dai Xiangming himself looked pitiful, sitting in a restraint chair drinking water.

"Leader Lu." The criminal policeman in the interrogation room greeted him, rubbing his head with a headache on his face: "The progress is a bit slow now, and the suspect refuses to press his fingerprints after pleading guilty."

The suspect Dai Xiangming can't write, so he can only confirm that he has admitted the crime by pressing his fingerprints. However, when he saw the document that required his fingerprints, Dai Xiangming was very uncooperative.

The cow doesn't drink water, and can't press its head forcefully. After talking with the sign language teacher for a long time, the situation has completely reached a deadlock.

Lu Zheng nodded to show his understanding, raised the things in his hands and asked, "Can I ask the suspect to cooperate in an investigative experiment?"

The investigative experiment is not an interrogation, so it doesn't matter if it is done by Lu Zheng. The criminal policeman in Dashui Township agreed a little tiredly.

"Thank you, Teacher Yu."

Lu Zheng first greeted Mr. Yu who was resting. Mr. Yu was resting with his eyes closed. It seemed that he didn't expect someone to call him suddenly. When he opened his eyes and saw Lu Zheng, his face changed slightly and he was shocked.

"Can I trouble you to translate it for me? Just a word, ask him to help me tie a hole in this shopping bag."

While talking, Lu Zheng handed over a canvas shopping bag found in the office outside and a shoelace borrowed from Zhao Tianrui.

Yu Yong hesitated for a moment, then turned around and made gestures with Dai Xiangming for a while.

Dai Xiangming stared blankly at Lu Zheng, with a puzzled look on his face, but he still took the shoelaces and shopping bag. Lu Zheng had already stuffed some waste paper and other sundries into the bag, and Dai Xiangming used the shoes quite quickly. The straps were crossed around the mouth of the pocket, one of them was tucked back in, pulled hard, and repeated.

After tying it up, he nervously changed the bag to Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng made a sign language gesture of "thank you" to him.

Yu Yong was shocked: "This police officer, do you know sign language?"

This posture comes from Lu Zheng's memory of his mother's movements. He knew some sign language when he was a child, otherwise he would not be able to communicate with his mother. However, the time is too long, and he was injured in the middle, so he has almost forgotten it now.

"Just a little and..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden loud noise from the restraint chair beside him. In order to facilitate Dai Xiangming to express himself in sign language, his hands were not fixed by the restraint chair. The chain rattled loudly.

"Ah! Ah!"

A rough roar was squeezed out of his throat, Dai Xiangming straightened up with difficulty, his eyes were red, he looked straight at Lu Zheng's direction, and kept making several gestures to him.

Make fists with both hands, punch the left fist with the right fist, then turn the palm upwards, and then draw a shape like a "3" in the air with your fingers.

"Quick! Put him on the restraint belt! His lower leg will be crushed!" The criminal policeman in Dashui Township was startled by this sudden situation. Seeing that the heavy edge of the restraint chair was stuck on Dai Xiangming's leg, he was afraid that he would get himself injured. I was hurt, so I rushed forward.

Dai Xiangming was born in farming, and he is still in good health despite his age. Surrounded by a group of criminal policemen, he was still clumsy and tried to push people away. The criminal policemen were wary of his safety. confusion.

In this chaos, Dai Xiangming kept making "ho-ho-ah" sounds, his eyes were facing Lu Zheng's direction, with various emotions surging in his eyes, and his hands were still trying to gesture to Lu Zheng.

"Wait! He has something to say to me!" Lu Zheng hurriedly stopped the criminal police who were trying to control Dai Xiangming, and stretched out his hand to beckon Yu Yong who was on the side: "Teacher, help me translate."

As soon as the words fell, Dai Xiangming let out a strange roar, and hit Yu Yong with a hard fist.

Yu Yong took two steps back. Although he stood firmly, his wrist hit the edge of the restraint chair, and the watch on his hand fell down.

"Clap!"

Lu Zheng hurried forward to pick up the watch, supported Yu Yong who was shaking, and handed the watch to him: "I'm sorry, Mr. Yu, can you see if it's broken——"

Having said that, he suddenly got stuck.

Yu Yong was reaching out to take the watch in his hand, and on the left wrist stretched out in front of him, Lu Zheng saw a small semicircular scar.

The scar looked slightly sunken and white, as if it had been aged for a long time.