traces of all things

Before he had time to think about it, Lu Zheng suddenly reached out and grabbed Yu Yong's wrist firmly.

Yu Yong felt as if his arm was clamped by iron clamps, and he couldn't move it. The slender-looking hand came from such a strong force that it made his wrist painful, as if it would break in a second.

"Hey, hello—" He couldn't help opening his mouth and moaned, "Officer, you—"

Lu Zheng ignored him, but tightly clenched the wrist in his hand, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and even breathing became difficult.

This face... this face...

Countless suspicious fragments suddenly floated in my mind.

Dai Xiangming's repeated hand movements countless times, the two pendant-like knots on the belt of Zhao Tianrui's hoodie, the unconcealable astonishment on Yu Yong's face when he saw him, and the fact that Yu Yong's wrist was covered by a watch. live scar...

And what he was holding in his hand at this moment, the knot that Dai Xiangming had just tied on the bag for him.

Very tight, very strong, the rope is pulled around after a circle, and repeated twice.

This is definitely not a fisherman's knot, but the most common and common double knot!

"Yu Yong." Lu Zheng raised his eyes and looked straight at him: "Now we, the police, need you to cooperate with our investigation."

"Tune... Investigate something..." Yu Yong looked flustered and tried to pull his wrist out, but unfortunately it didn't work.

"What do you ask me to investigate?" Lu Zheng raised the corners of his mouth and showed a cold smile: "Investigate the murder of Cuiping on the Poplar Trail 25 years ago, and investigate the murder of Zhao Zizi four years ago! "

**

Yu Yong was temporarily detained. Since he was suspected of committing the crime, there must have been some problems in the sign language conversation between Dai Xiangming and him.

The Dashui Township Public Security Bureau dispatched a team to find new people who could understand sign language, and soon they came back, bringing back teachers from a slightly larger school for the deaf and dumb in the next township.

There is no way out. The school for the deaf and mute in Dashui Township is very small, and it can only allow some children to receive some simple education and recognize a few words. There are not many people who can sign language. There are even fewer people who can speak. Under such circumstances, Yu Yong, who has no teaching experience, was unemployed before, and may have a vicious criminal record, has also embarked on the award of teaching and educating people. Taiwan, it is really ironic.

The sign language teacher invited was much older than Yu Yong. He was chubby and kind-hearted. He introduced himself as Yan.

"Hello, Mr. Yan." After greeting Lu Zheng and the others, he invited Mr. Yan to sit down, turned on the surveillance video in the interrogation room, and asked Mr. Yan to help check it.

There was a burst of noise, and after the people in the room finished speaking some routine instructions, the interrogation officially began.

"Dai Xiangming, may I ask if you attacked a woman in Yujia Village, Dashui Township 25 years ago?"

After Yu Yong in the video finished listening, he started to move his hands.

"Eh?" Teacher Yan rubbed his eyes, as if surprised.

"Teacher Yan just needs to translate what you see truthfully." Officer Xiao Hu reminded.

"Oh, oh okay." Teacher Yan touched his forehead, looking a little puzzled: "This man asked him what he did this morning and whether he had breakfast."

Dai Xiangming nodded, then raised his hand and made a series of movements.

"The suspect said that he had eaten and walked out in the morning to watch the rice harvesting in the field." Teacher Yan translated slowly.

At the same time, Yu Yong spoke up: "Dai Xiangming said, yes, he once tried to rape a woman on the poplar trail outside Yujia Village."

There was an uproar.

This is already a blatant reversal of black and white!

The following interrogation, under the correct translation of Mr. Yan, appeared extremely magical realism. Yu Yong not only deliberately turned the wrong question when translating, but also specially said some more misleading questions, so that Dai Xiangming could do it. corresponding action.When police officer Xiao Hu asked Cuiping if she had children with her, Yu Yong changed the question to "Xiang Ming, how many brothers and sisters do you have in your family?"

Dai Xiangming and Yu Yong have known each other before, so they naturally know his family structure. However, Dai Xiangming has no doubts at all, and still sticks a middle finger to his lips very seriously, and then changes it to stand upright with his palm extended on the side of his head. He waved twice from back to front, and stretched out two more fingers.

It was the movement that made Lu Zheng feel extremely familiar!

Teacher Yan couldn't bear it at this time, sighed a long time, and translated: "The suspect said that he has two older brothers in his family."

Yu Yong in the video then turned his head and said calmly and abnormally: "Dai Xiangming said that she has two children with her."

That's right, this gesture means brother.

Brother, don't bully younger brother.

You are an older brother, you have to be a little man.

……

All these are the words that his mother Cuiping gestured to him countless times.

No wonder this action is so familiar.

Lu Zheng felt his nose sore, he lowered his head and rubbed his eyes with his thumb.

At this time, Dai Xiangming in the video had already started to get agitated, and he kept repeating the movements of clenching his fists.

"He's asking... what's wrong? What happened?"

Indeed, Dai Xiangming has been able to struggle from an illiterate disabled person to today and become a well-known farmer in the village. How could he be a fool? He is probably talking about the same incomprehensible translator as Yu Yong, and the police officers in front of him are getting more and more dignified. I found clues in my expression, and felt something was wrong.

But of all the people present, no one could understand his anxiety and uneasiness.

Not long after, the scene of Lu Zheng gesturing to Dai Xiangming to thank him appeared on the video. At that time, he didn't know the inside story, but now looking at the video, Dai Xiang's weathered face is obviously more bitter——I saw him Surprised light burst out from the muddy eyes, and he kept waving his arms in the direction of Lu Zheng.

Teacher Yan was silent for a few seconds.

"He said, what's going on? Can you tell me what's going on?" Teacher Yan shook his head, closed his eyes, and couldn't stand it anymore.

"The suspect was saying - please, help me, save me."

The interrogation video ended here, and the screen in front of him fell into darkness.

The whole room was filled with deathly silence.

**

After Dai Xiangming's innocence was proven, he was sent home quickly. Before getting out of the car, with tears in his old eyes, he held the hands of Lu Zheng and Teacher Yan, and gestured "thank you" to them over and over again. .

Lu Zheng shook his head, supported him, and bowed to him.

Then straightened up, fingers flying.

"sorry."

Dai Xiangming's honest and honest face flushed slightly, he smiled and opened his mouth with a missing tooth, waved his hand, went into the room, walked out quickly, and stuffed something into Lu Zheng's palm.

Lu Zheng looked down and saw that it was a red crabapple fruit.

**

After seeing off Dai Xiangming, Lu Zheng and Tang Shaoyuan went to Yu Yong's house with the search permit non-stop.

Yu Yong is now married to Zhao Laizi's ex-wife, and the two naturally moved together. Their home is located in Zhaojia Village, which is adjacent to Yujia Village. When the village heard that they were looking for Yu Yong's family, they all gave directions.

"Zhao Laizi's wife is very lucky. After Zhao Laizi went somewhere, she left all the money to her. She turned around and married another person. The person she married was a teacher from some school in the village. Zhao Zizi has a good relationship, after Zhao Zizi ran away, he often came to help take care of his wife and children, take care of him, hey, just take care of a kang..."

The one who spoke was a villager who was eating melon seeds, and his expression looked a bit wretched, but also a bit envious: "The teacher is also very lucky, I heard that the teacher's original wife was very ugly, and later brought him a green The hat is gone, and this is a lucky moment. Zhao Laizi's wife is always a little old, and she is a second-hand product, but she looks pretty good, and I think she is quite exciting in bed..."

Lu Zheng frowned slightly when he heard his foul language, and was about to thank him and leave when Tang Shaoyuan suddenly came up from behind and covered his ears.

"Thank you, where is his house going?" Tang Shaoyuan said.

The villager with the melon seeds in his mouth raised his finger in a daze and pointed in one direction.

Tang Shaoyuan took a look and saw that there was indeed a decent small farmyard in the distance. He nodded and walked towards the side road with his hands on Lu Zheng's shoulders.

Villager: ...

**

Yu Yong's home is a rather large yard, but it looks very crowded, with things everywhere, such as carts, iron pipes, firewood, and old cardboard boxes, all piled up on the ground, and it is impossible to get out of the house when you first enter the door.

"It seems that Yu Yong or his wife likes to hoard goods." Tang Shaoyuan frowned, and jumped into the yard on tiptoe with a little disgust.

I love stockpiling...

Police officer Xiao Hu's voice suddenly came to Lu Zheng's mind.

"... Isn't this murderer a bit too nostalgic? You still have the fertilizer bag from more than [-] years ago?..."

It fits the personality perfectly.

Looking around in the main room, he didn't find anything worth noting, but Lu Zheng saw a small wooden ship model on Zhao Tianrui's bedside table. hapiness.

"How did this thing come from?" Lu Zheng touched the hemp rope on the ship's mast, and the rope was tied together with a special knot that circled around.

Standing by the side to accompany, the beautiful woman who looked a little timid glanced at the small model and said, "This...is a small gift made by Yu Yong for Tianrui. It was carved out of waste wood picked up from the construction site."

Lu Zheng nodded, put the boat back to its original position, and took Tang Shaoyuan to the storage room.

If Yu Yong's house is just a bit messy, then this storage room can really be called a cosmic black hole, with mountains of sundries and furniture, covered with cobwebs, stacked together, Almost as high as the ceiling.If you really want to rummage through one by one, relying on the strength of Lu Zheng and the others, I don't know how to find the Year of the Monkey.

In desperation, Lu Zheng had no choice but to call Police Officer Xiao Hu who stayed at Dai Xiangming's house to confirm the situation.

Police officer Xiao Hu looked very excited after answering the phone, and informed Lu Zheng and the others of his investigation results: "I took people to check all the things in Dai Xiangming's house that were tied up and sealed with ropes, and I didn't see that The so-called fisherman's knots! They are all the most common double knots! Leader Lu, you wait, we will come right away!"

Afterwards, Xiao Hu came to Yu Yong's house with all the people from the Public Security Bureau of Dashui Township. The evidence returned to the Public Security Bureau.

**

The interrogation room of the Dashui Township Public Security Bureau.

"Yu Yong." Sitting in the interrogation area, Police Officer Xiao Hu pointed to something in the middle of the room and said, "Does this look familiar to you?"

That dusty thing is huge, and upon closer inspection, it is the most popular Forever bicycle from more than twenty years ago. There is also an iron button on the front bumper, which is a sign that a child seat has been installed.

Yu Yong raised his eyes and looked a little nervously: "I don't know."

"I don't recognize it, so how did it get out of your warehouse?" Xiao Hu pointed out the key point sharply.

"I recognize it, and I recognize it now. I forgot just now." Yu Yong also realized that his words were illogical, so he hurriedly added them in sweat.

"Just recognize it." Xiao Hu said cheaply: "Then can you explain why the bicycle that Cuiping, who died 25 years ago, appeared in your warehouse?"

Yu Yong obviously panicked: "No, this is the car I bought..."

"Let me tell you something." The one who stood up was Lu Zheng who had been silent behind him.

Yu Yong flinched when he saw his face that resembled Cuiping.

"Here, ordinary pneumatic tires have been replaced with rubber tires. The rubber tires are processed from discarded V-belts. If you go to Yujia Village and ask around, you will know that this is my father Yu Shuisheng's unique craftsmanship. It can extend the length of tires. You’ve been riding for so many years, haven’t you noticed that the tires never need patching?”

Speaking of this, Lu Zheng raised the corners of his mouth and looked indifferent: "Even if you know this skill, it's fine, no problem, then take a look at this car seat, do you feel that it is particularly comfortable to ride? Because this leather seat is a My dad sewed it to the seat by himself, and added several layers of sponge inside - if you carefully remove the seat, you will see a Chinese character 'Ping' on the leather inside the seat, which is My dad hit it in with a shoe repair thimble."

Having said that, Lu Zheng quickly removed the car seat and opened the inside. Sure enough, there was a small Chinese character on the old leather, and a few small flowers around it, very delicate.

A little bit of decoration hides Yu Shuisheng's rustic gentleness of a rural man under the dull surface.

"Look at me, you look into my eyes." Lu Zheng said in a slow and clear tone: "Does your wrist hurt? Is there anything else you want to say?"

Yu Yong curled up on the interrogation chair, trembling uncontrollably.