Butterfly hairpin

It was already ten o'clock in the evening when we returned to the office. The colleague on the night shift was eating wontons when he saw Mo Yu coming and shouted, "Where did the great hero go to solve the strange case again?"

"Don't talk nonsense, the captain has said that I am called a blind cat meeting a dead mouse"

"Hahaha, don't be modest, we've been following the Mawangzhuang case for a month, and it's easy for you to break through. Your eyes are sharp, and you look like a detective."

"Don't be silly, get a bucket of instant noodles, I'll starve to death all the way."

While eating instant noodles, Mo Yu thought carefully about the conversation with Su Quanhua and Li Quanyou today. It seemed that there was nothing special about it, but he still recorded it.

Regarding the case of missing a child in Maguanmiao Village 22 years ago, I heard this from an old man at Shichenpu:

It was eaten by the people of Suliyang. Their village can't grow food, and they don't even care about the country.

Su Quanhua put it this way:

I didn't know about the child's disappearance. I still heard about it after I moved to Shichenpu. I also said that I was eaten by Su Liyang's people. We didn't dare to go back because of it!If you ask Su Liyang's people now, almost no one knows.I thought about it later, when the police came to our village, I was there at the time. You don’t know how many people stopped at the gates of the two houses behind the village.Everyone in our village was too scared to come out of the house, and few dared to run out.A group of people dug the ground in those two rooms, and covered the ground with a white cloth.We thought it was some treasure at the time, but later we heard that it was all human bones, it was so scary, I dare not go to the two haunted houses behind the village now.Then it was all over. After this incident happened, we found out that the men of the two families behind were also dead, and there were only two women's families left. One woman was taken away, and the other woman stayed in the village. , is still there.Not long after, a group of people came from nowhere, ran to the back of the village, cried and cursed, and beat the woman who stayed behind, cursing all the way, saying that our village is a village that eats people, who knew that just after leaving Village, these people ran away, and I thought it must have been spread by these people.

Li Quanyou didn't give any information. He said that he was bitten by a dog and sent to the hospital in the town.Su Xingwang and Su Quanhua also confirmed this point. At that time, Li Quanyou's whole face was bloody from being bitten, but he didn't know why, because there were no dogs in the village at that time.

No matter how full this bowl of instant noodles is, I got up and went to the storage room to find a tube of instant noodles. When I got the water and came back, I saw Ma Chong was smoking with one hand and reading Mo Yu's notes with the other in his pocket.

Ma Chong turned around, came behind Mo Yu, turned around and closed the door

"How is it? Do you have any clues? Can you understand what you wrote?"

"No, it's less than one piece, and some of them are even more irrelevant, saying that the child was eaten by a dog."

"Tomorrow I'm going to Yuhe Town, and I'll have to go there for several days. Mawangzhuang's closing statement has just been sorted out, and your performance this time is okay." Ma Chong lit another cigarette when he said this.

Mo Yu didn't know whether this was a compliment or a sarcasm, the two of them glanced at this and then bowed their heads and stopped talking.

When he saw the murder scene of the Chen couple in Mawangzhuang for the first time, Mo Yu couldn't hold it back. He forced the liquid from his mouth to come outside the courtyard wall. He could hear someone vomiting in pain not far away. .Even Ma Chong's brows were furrowed, he couldn't blame them young police officers.The walls of the entire murder scene were splattered with blood, and the victim's painful body writhed on the ground. The room was cold and oppressive in broad daylight, and the only girl who survived was sent directly to a psychological counseling center.When stepping into the murder scene for the fifth time, Ma Chong's irascibility made everyone more anxious in the oppressive environment, while Mo Yu came outside knowingly. He always felt that someone was staring at him, so he unconsciously came to the place where he vomited again. I wondered if his colleague had turned it over again. At this time, he saw half of the paper exposed outside, and he pulled it subconsciously. When it came out, there was feces on it. Obviously it was toilet paper, and it was a torn book cover with Shangguanqi Primary School written on it.Shangguan Banner Primary School is in Yuhe Town, and there is no reason for people from Yuhe Town to go to their Yuanshui Town to go to school.Mo Yu wrote this doubtful point, but unexpectedly caught the real murderer.

Ma Chong continued to stare at Mo Yu's notes and said, "Let me go over the case of Xie Jiaqi's disappearance 22 years ago. You probably won't be able to find anything if you ask the villagers, because the files have been sealed and they are not here. I am too." I peeked at the file before it was transferred." Ma Chong said this very calmly, not like his usual style, and obviously a little serious

Mo Yu hummed, then lowered his head and continued eating instant noodles

"22 years ago, that is, in 1981. Xie Jiaqi was in the current Shichenpu, which used to be a supply and marketing cooperative. He lost it. His family searched for it for a day. Later, a child who went with him said that he saw Ma Jiaqi leaving with a man. , and pointed in the direction. The child's family ran to the police station to report the case, and the police came to Suliyang, and picked up the child's shoes and fallen wood carvings on the road. But as soon as the police arrived in the village, a woman ran out to ask for help , said that this place killed people. Asked who she killed, she said that two men killed two of his men. The police were puzzled, and the police asked if they had seen children. The woman shook her head and insisted on pulling The two of them walked back, but the three of them were stopped by the villagers, who refused to let them go. They even beat up the two policemen and took the woman back. After the two policemen came back, they transferred a squad of the army The fighters have returned to Suliyang."

Mo Yu listened carefully, even trying to suppress the sound of instant noodles to the minimum, and finally finished eating. Seeing that Ma Chong didn't want to stop, he pushed the instant noodles aside and listened to Ma Chong continue:

"I didn't expect to go back and found a bigger secret. Two days ago, two men came here with guns in their hands. They rushed into the house and killed the woman's two husbands, and then burned the bodies. The police did find two unburned skeletons. Following the woman's instructions, they dug up several sets of human bones in the yard. It turned out that the woman's two husbands were two brothers born to the same mother. One lived with the woman. , one lives with his mother. The two brothers live in the opposite door, and they don’t usually communicate with each other. Only women’s families communicate with each other. When the two brothers first came to this village, there were only two families there, so they took over their house and killed the original family. The owner of the house, the woman was only an eight or nine-year-old child and was left behind. Later, more and more people from Suliyang moved in, and the two brothers never went out again.”

Sighing, Mo Yu continued: "The police interrogated the woman repeatedly, but the woman insisted that she had never seen the child, and the bones outside did not match the child, and the bones buried in the yard were all old. After asking the villagers, they would They said they had never seen the child, so the police called in more people, and the soil was turned over. Except for all kinds of stones, there was no sign of the child. Therefore, the disappearance of Xie Jiaqi became an unsolved case, but according to According to the woman’s narrative, we confirmed that the two gunmen who killed were the two deserters from Unit 75 in 923. Later, the photos were taken, and the woman and the villagers confirmed that they were the two. The police had no choice but to bring the woman back, but But the old lady insisted on not leaving. Unexpectedly, when she returned to the town, the woman jumped up and down and went crazy. Later, the deserter murder case was closed, because it involved foreigners and there was no way to confirm it, so it did not spread. But Xie Jiaqi His family members went to Suliyang and went to the police station to make a fuss for half a year. After reassuring the family members, they paid some compensation before giving up.”

"Didn't you say that no body or wreckage was found?"

"It's because we couldn't find it that there was a theory of cannibalism. Because there was an order not to disclose all information related to foreigners at that time, we didn't disclose too much. Xie Jiaqi's family was very dissatisfied with us. They went directly to Su Li Yang, and then started spreading the word everywhere.”

Mo Yu sighed: "I heard from people in Suliyang that a child in their village was also missing, but no one reported it."

"You're talking about Su Xun, right? At that time, I did know that there was a pair of father and son in the village, Su Shijie and Su Xun. Coincidentally, this Su Xun and Xie Jiaqi were both of the same age and size, and it was even more coincidental that Su Xun also left on the day the incident happened. It is said that Su Liyang was taken to Beijing. The police handling the case at that time found Su Shijie, but Su Shijie was crying and laughing for a while, saying that he had no son. We didn't ask anything, but the villagers said Su Xun went to Beijing, but no one knows where he went.”

"Then, did Su Xun find it later?" Mo Yu continued to ask.

Ma Chong put out the cigarette and said, "Su Xun is dead."

"what?"

"Since you mentioned it, it's a coincidence that we just found out about it. Two deserters from that year were found in Shenzhen a few days ago. I forgot to mention that one of them is Liu Xian and the other is Dong Xin. Now they are in Fujiafang, Shenzhen. Both of them are not married. They run a jade bank in private. They are low-key. When the police rushed over, the building was empty, but after the police searched, they accidentally found a photo. This In the photo, there are three people standing together with their shoulders crossed, besides these two, there is another person, a high-ranking army official who was killed in Beijing 20 years ago, named Chai An."

Sighing, Ma Chong continued: "The most important thing is that they found the Jade Buddha palm that Chai An lost at that time. There was a pair of Jade Buddha palms. What they found was the right palm. The whereabouts of the left palm is unknown. It is said that it is priceless. Woolen cloth".

Mo Yu stared closely at Ma Chong, wanting to hear him continue. At this moment, Ma Chong seemed to be lost in memory, as if he had seen that Buddha's palm.Mo Yu couldn't help interrupting: "What does this have to do with Su Xun's death?"

Ma Chong turned around, lit another cigarette and said, "Don't worry, I haven't finished yet. It is said that Chai An was killed 20 years ago. His mistress was on a date. Someone killed the two and then burned the house, but found the footprints of four pairs of adults in the house, and found the wreckage of two large and one small. The Beijing police found that there was a 4-year-old His son, Su Xun, who is about 12 years old, is registered in his household registration book. However, the neighbors of Zhafang and the people who know Chai An all claim that they have never seen the child. The only thing the police can confirm is that the murderers were indeed two People, now because of the appearance of the Jade Buddha Palm, the main suspicion is these two deserters. After another investigation, it was found that these two deserters had also committed crimes in Suliyang, so I called for a coordinated investigation."

"You just said about 12 years old, which is about the same as Xie Jiaqi," Mo Yu said thoughtfully.

"What do you want to express? These are two really different people. Don't think about it. This Su Xun and Li Quanyou were playmates when they were young. You have to ask Su Liyang's people. Most people now Basically, I have met Su Xun. Xie Jiaqi, I have met Xie Jiaqi. He had an illness when he was young, and he had some mental problems. The two of them have nothing to do with each other.”

Mo Yu smiled, "Did Xie Jiaqi go in the wrong direction when he got lost, maybe he didn't go to Suliyang at all?"

"Impossible", Ma Chong blurted out, and suddenly realized that he was losing his composure, so he stopped talking.

Mo Yu also felt a little surprised. Seeing that Ma Chong was not talking, he asked, "If the person who died in Beijing was Su Xun, why didn't everyone around see him?"

"I didn't ask about this, but it is said that Chai An has several houses in Beijing, maybe he has settled elsewhere. Besides, Su Xun was a black household before, and it is said that he was not very glorious when he was born, although he stayed in Suliyang for a long time. For a while, but his name was not registered, only Su Shijie’s name, so the Beijing police had no way of finding out at that time. If you are interested in Su Xun, you can go to Su Liyang and ask Li Quanyou if you have time. Take you to find Su Shijie, but this is not important."

In the middle of the night, the two chatted for a while, then pushed the car out of the police station, separated one south and one north.Walking on the road, Mo Yu always felt that the name Su Xun was very familiar. He thought for a long time, and when he reached the door of the house, he remembered that Su Yougen had mentioned it when he first went to Su Liyang, but Su Yougen was drunk at the time. Stumbling and saying that Li Quanyou stabbed Su Xun, Su Xingwang also hurriedly covered Su Yougen's mouth.