traces of all things

When Huo Xuefeng heard this, his eyes lit up, but he immediately showed some embarrassment.

"What? I don't know?" Lu Zheng's eyes drifted over.

"No, no, no, I know." Huo Xuefeng immediately balked: "My elder brother is the son of my uncle's family. He is the only one in my family who can study. Later, he passed the normal school examination and became a teacher. He married a female teacher at the school. They say he is the most promising."

Speaking of this, Huo Xuefeng showed a trace of wretched pleasure on his face, as if he was laughing at the unexpectedly ugly side of his excellent cousin: "Who knew that he was———— a second chair!"

Lu Zheng nodded calmly: "Understood, then what?"

Seeing Lu Zheng's indifferent face, Huo Xuefeng couldn't help but feel a little discouraged: "He is a high school teacher. In their high school there was a poor student who was admitted from the countryside. His grades were pretty good. The school waived tuition fees, but there seemed to be two boys at home. Dad My mother thought that studying also cost living expenses and money, so she asked him to drop out of school and go back to support his younger brother. My elder brother was very honest and said that he would support that student to study."

"In the end, tsk tsk." Huo Xuefeng narrowed his eyes and grinned: "He was commended by the school for sponsoring that student, and gave him a pennant. What a teacher... Hey, I don't even have much money to pay for others When I was studying, I said he had no good intentions. Two years later, he touched that student in the office and the students who came to the office saw him. Oh my god, that sensational one, my brother didn’t even put on his pants. It's embarrassing to be surrounded by people watching with bare buttocks!"

Lu Zheng was so disgusted that the veins on his forehead twitched: "What happened next?"

"That's how it was later on." Huo Xuefeng raised his legs in a sly manner, "My brother got the school to suspend him, and made him think about it. As a result, in our small place, any gossip can be spread. There was a lot of uproar. My sister-in-law couldn’t stand being pointed at by others, so she divorced and went to another city. My uncle and aunt also got angry and said that they wanted to sever the father-son relationship with my brother. It seems that my brother didn’t work in that school anymore. That's right, if you lose such an adult, how can you stay here?"

"I mean..." Lu Zheng asked additionally, "Where is that student? What's his name? What happened afterwards?"

When he asked this sentence, for some reason, Lu Zheng felt his heart suddenly emptied, and then he felt a sharp pain, as if he had been stabbed by some sharp object.

He pressed his left chest calmly, enduring the weird feeling.

Huo Xuefeng's beaming expression immediately withered away, and he looked at Lu Zheng cautiously: "This... I don't know very well, these are what my aunt and the others said."

Seeing that Lu Zheng's complexion was not good, he quickly added another sentence: "I heard that the student couldn't stay in school anymore, dropped out of school, and then went to work somewhere. It's a pity... It's said that the child looks so good. It's so handsome, otherwise my beast brother wouldn't be able to get up to such a crooked mind... Police officer, you go to my hometown Yongning and ask, you all know about this, but I didn't say a word."

Swallowing, Huo Xuefeng probed with his eyes: "How is it? Police officer? Is this useful? Is it meritorious service?"

After the interrogation of Huo Xuefeng was over, Lu Zheng returned to the Municipal Bureau with the recording of the conversation.

Yongning is a small county, near Yuanbao, close to the border, and not far from the provincial capital. After discussing with Captain Huang Ying, Lu Zheng had no choice but to temporarily calm down his beating heart and prepare to take it to the market the next morning. People from the bureau went to Yongning's public security organ to investigate.

By the time Lu Zheng returned home in a hurry, it was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

"Hey, Police Officer Lu!" The elder brother of the doorman on duty at the property saw Lu Zheng hurriedly walked into the gate of the community, and shouted at him: "Wait, here are your things!"

Tired and hungry, Lu Zheng stopped and turned his head curiously.

Seeing Lu Zheng stop, the doorman quickly picked up a small light-colored square package from the table in the room: "At six or seven o'clock in the evening, the tall guy who brought you back delivered it here, he Say his surname is Tang."

Shao Yuan?What did he send over?

Lu Zheng's heart moved slightly, and he stretched out his hand to take the small package, which was much heavier than he imagined.

"Hey, be more careful." The big security guard hurriedly gave a hand: "It seems to be a glass jar inside or something, and it makes a rattling sound."

Lu Zheng smiled, and thanked the big security guard, who waved his hand: "It's a little effort, by the way, Police Officer Lu, I've already reported the small advertisements you drew my attention to, and they will send someone to check."

"That's good." Lu Zheng nodded. Ever since he received the letter from the mysterious man in the crack of the door, he has been paying attention to this, and he specially asked the security guard to help him watch it: "Brother, I'm sorry."

The big security guard smiled: "What's the trouble, go back to the house, it's so cold."

When he returned to the house, Lu Zheng covered his hands that were red from the cold, and tremblingly opened the small square package.

Inside are two stacked lunch boxes with side dishes, porridge in a thermos cup, and a sticky note on the lunch box.

"Brother, heat it in the microwave for 3 minutes first."

"Pfft."

Lu Zheng shook his head, the corners of his mouth raised uncontrollably.

He couldn't put it down and looked left and right at the two lunch boxes for a while, humming a song and stuffing them into the microwave.

**

The next day, Lu Zheng woke up early and went back to the City Bureau to contact the criminal police of Yongning County.

The criminal police on the other end of the phone should have just come to work, and it sounded a little sleepy in his voice. After hearing Lu Zheng say that he had something to do with a serial murder case in the provincial capital, he immediately cheered up: "I know the leader, we We will start work here immediately. We will report when we have news.”

Lu Zheng said hard, and hung up the phone.

Now that Huo Xuefeng's line has been cleared, the only remaining clue is the newspaper fragments in the body bag that he temporarily put aside. While waiting for the Yongning police call, Lu Zheng took the evidence box of the serial murder case from the Take it off the shelf.

When the box was dragged down, a flaky object was taken off the shelf from the side and fell lightly to the ground.

Lu Zheng put down the evidence box in his hand, bent down and picked up what looked like a piece of waste paper.

This is a piece of crumpled white waste paper. It has been treated by reagents at first glance. It should be scrapped because no trace evidence was detected. It may be that the criminal policeman in charge of sorting out the evidence is not sure whether it is useful or not, so he put it away as well. On the evidence shelf.

Lu Zheng turned it over to look, and a line of handwriting collaged with newspapers came into his eyes.

"Your mother is dead. There are two murderers in dark blue jackets. The tall one is in black jackets. The short one is in black jackets. The body is dismembered and the sack is set on fire."

In an instant, Lu Zheng was struck by lightning!

He quickly put down the white paper in his hand, rushed to the evidence box, opened the lid, and took out the half-processed newspaper fragment inside.

"...The Xiangyang District in the north of the city recently responded to the city's appearance construction, and painted the exterior walls of the district in sky[] colors..."

"Zhu Wei's [][] received the Model Worker Medal on behalf of Zhu Wei... Zhu Wei's [] body was found at the scene of the fire, and [] the cause of death was..."

"The way to decorate coffee on both sides of the Strait is to use recycled old [][] and navy-style color schemes for decoration..."

The vague context in these fragments, and the neatly cut spaces in the middle, once filled with possible words, become "blue", "mother", "corpse", "dead", "sack".

And these words appeared in the anonymous letter he received before!

Lu Zheng's fingers trembled slightly, he took out a ruler and a magnifying glass, spread out two documents, and compared and confirmed those suspicious words again.

The font is consistent.

Same size.

The color is consistent.

Even a small cut that appeared on the edge fit perfectly.

The answer is ready to come out, the fragments of newspaper found in Shanghe, used to wrap the two suspected "Brother Yan" arms, and the anonymous letter that appeared in Lu Zheng's house were written by the same person !

And the suspect in the serial murder case, according to the identity of "Brother Yan", should be the so-called "little boy".

"Little boy"... looks similar to himself.

And this person should have been there when he and his mother and brother met the gangster...

Lu Zheng felt goosebumps on his arms rushing out.

No matter how many refutation reasons he conceived in his mind, he seemed to be unable to recover from this mountain of ironclad evidence.

"Ring Ling Ling..."

At this moment, Lu Zheng's cell phone rang.

"Hello? Who's there?" Lu Zheng picked up the phone first, not even bothering to read the caller ID.

"Is it the leader of the provincial department? I am Xiao Wang from the Yongning County Public Security Bureau. I just went to visit and investigate the No. [-] Middle School in Dahe Town, Yongning County. The student was dismissed and disappeared after dropping out of school. The teacher’s name is Huo Xuesong, and the student’s name is Rui Chengye.”

"Rui Chengye...is that so?" Lu Zheng asked vaguely.

"Yes, there is Rui in the first letter of cursive, there is something very noteworthy about this student." Xiao Wang said, "I looked through our police records and found that he had never been involved in this incident with a teacher in the school. He has reported the case, but 20 years ago, when he was a child, he came to the police station to report the case twice. According to the record at that time, he claimed to have seen his mother and brother killed by gangsters, and described in detail The scene at that time. But after the public security police obtained his household registration information, they found that both his parents were there, and he had a younger brother, so they called his family. After his parents came for questioning, they said that the child was born It was difficult to give birth, he had some brain problems, and he was always talking nonsense, so the police asked his parents to take him back."

"These are the basic materials. Do you have any instructions from the leader?" Xiao Wang finished his report conscientiously, and when he heard Lu Zheng's side fell silent, he asked again.

"No... these clues are enough, thank you." Lu Zheng spoke slowly, looked at the police officer in front of him, and silently hung up the phone.

No other clues were needed.

On the Police Pass in front of him is a person's identity information. The household registration information shows that this person is named Rui Chengye, and his birthplace is Ruijia Village, Dahe Town, Yongning County. Lu Zheng moved his thumb and slid across the screen. The identity on the Police Pass A face identical to his own appeared in the ID photo column.

It's like looking in a mirror.

After staring blankly at the identity information in front of him for a few seconds, Lu Zheng gave a jolt, picked up the phone on the table and pressed Tang Shaoyuan's number.

A mechanical female voice came from the receiver:

"Sorry, the user you dialed has shut down, please try again later..."