winter past

Zhao You said: "He is the private detective who discovered the body in Aegean Sea 404 together with Mr. Yin."

Yan Boyuan propped up his knees with one hand, raised half of his eyebrows to look at him and asked, "Did he cheat Teacher Yin of his money?"

"No, I just think he's a bit weird." Zhao You looked at Yan Boyuan with a smile, and said enthusiastically, "What movie are you going to watch with Xiao Xu? I'll give you a staff officer?"

Yan Boyuan snorted lightly, slid to the back of his desk, opened a drawer, grabbed a file folder, and put it on the table with a "snap", muttering: "Strange? Why is he weird? I You're the freak."

Zhao You dragged the chair over, looked at the thick folder, and asked Yan Boyuan, "Is this a copy of his personnel file?" He reached out to get it.

Yan Boyuan raised his head and smiled at Zhao You, held down the file folder, and did not let Zhao You take it away. He looked at him leisurely and asked, "Tell me why this person is strange first, what is so strange about it, you can't ask for it for no reason. Check this person, do you suspect that he has something to do with some case? Does he have an intersection with Zhang Li or does he have something to do with the case of the task force?"

Zhao You said, "Personal interest."

Yan Boyuan didn't take it seriously: "Come on, I don't know you yet?" At this moment, both of his arms were pressed on the file folder, and he stared at Zhao You with one hand resting on his chin: "This is the man who killed Lin Lin ten years ago. That policeman in Midong, I told you last time, do you still remember?"

Zhao You blinked, touched the back of his head, and showed a flattering smile: "I don't remember, hey, by the way, Xiaoyan, how did you know? Who told you? You are the one who is well informed. , Has this been written in the personnel file? This file is written in such detail, I knew that I was sure you were right about this matter.”

Yan Boyuan rolled his eyes at him: "Has he said anything to Mr. Yin, about Lin Midong, about Aegean Sea 404?"

"What?" Zhao You scratched his ear, "Should he say something to Teacher Yin?"

Yan Boyuan looked at him, but still pressed the folder tightly, Zhao You smiled flatteringly, moved closer to Yan Boyuan, and said, "I think, he..."

Yan Boyuan waited for him to speak.Zhao You said: "He laughed too much."

Yan Boyuan also smiled: "Okay, just fool me, pretend to be dazed with me, whatever you want, I went to watch a movie with Xiao Xu." He got up and was about to leave with the file folder.

Zhao You said: "Don't you think that if a person smiles too much, his face will look like he's crying, and instead he will look distant and insincere?"

"Like you are now?"

Zhao You laughed twice, and said, "I'm happy when I see you. When people are happy, they laugh naturally." He added: "And he is too honest with the people he just met, and it's easy It’s unreasonable to confess some personal privacy, right?”

Yan Boyuan sat down again: "What secrets did he confess to you?" He said, "What's unreasonable about telling secrets to strangers?"

Zhao You said: "But he was very nervous when he said those words, although the tone was very light..." He couldn't figure it out, frowned, and couldn't find a suitable explanation: "Anyway, it's weird, very strange, like trying hard You really want to connect with people, want to connect with people, communicate, adapt to human interaction, make a relationship, but it backfires, like a misfit part.”

"Maybe people really want to communicate with you, want to make friends with you and so on." Yan Boyuan smiled and said lightly: "Xiao Zhao, there are people and things in this world that you can't figure out? It's rare." He asked again, "What did he tell you about privacy?"

"That's not the point, is it?"

"Why not?"

"It's one thing for him to tell me, but it's another thing for me to tell you?"

Yan Boyuan knocked on the table twice, and said: "Professor Tian and his wife, guess what? No one in their school, from colleagues to leaders, knew what happened to his family. The couple said that their daughter brought their granddaughter to the United States to attend the It’s summer camp, and I’m planning to go to an American high school, and everyone in the office said they looked the same as usual, and some of Professor Tian’s students said that they felt that the professor had been smoking more aggressively in the past two days.”

"Professor Tian smokes?"

"No, I secretly smoked in the toilet. A student bumped into me once, and I found the deodorizing clothes fragrance in his drawer." Yan Boyuan looked secretive, pressed his shoulders, and pressed his voice: "Tian Keren's My mother, Professor Zhang, has a girl in her class, a junior, who got married a while ago, and she once said that she felt ashamed that something like this happened in her class, saying that students should act like students."

Zhao You asked him, "Xiaoyan, are you going to the National Security Bureau?"

Yan Boyuan took out the file folder pressed under his elbow and threw it to Zhao You. Zhao You opened it and was dumbfounded: "Isn't this a personnel file?" He flipped through several pages: "This is...the house opening record?"

The house opening record he held in his hand began in 2013, and it must have more than ten pages, and it seemed impossible to read it all.Zhao You was really at a loss now, and asked Yan Boyuan, "Where are the personnel files?"

"No."

"No?" Zhao You touched his hair several times from front to back, from back to front, and thought of a possibility: "Could it be a confidential document?" He laughed, "After a long time, it turns out that he is from the National Security Bureau ?”

Yan Boyuan spread his hands: "I don't know, anyway, it is merged with the file of the Aegean killer."

Zhao You looked down at the densely packed room opening records. Xiaoman slept out at least three times a week, and the check-in time was always at midnight. Most of the time, there was only one person who registered, and sometimes two people registered together. It's different, there are ages ranging from 20s to 40s, and they are all men.

Yan Boyuan stretched out a finger, poked it twice in the air, and said, "Turn to the back and look, why are you always staring at people's house opening records? You see, on July 08, 7, he was at the Ping'an Street Police Station. I was given a verbal warning once for destroying other people’s property, and I was arrested twice at the Ping’an Street Police Station in August and October, both of which were deliberate destruction of other people’s property, do you know who the person who had a dispute with him is?”

Zhao You turned back, and Yan Boyuan said: "Look, you can look for yourself, anyway, the personnel files can't be transferred, so I went to the household registration to check. This is the first time I have seen so many house opening records. From 13 to this month of 18, just a few days ago, Sixi Hotel, and a man named Lin Maung, who was Hong Kong, had a big bed room." Yan Boyuan's voice was a little softer, "He is that?"

Zhao You turned to the three brief criminal records. On July 08, 7, Xiaoman trespassed on the Aegean Sea Hotel and was suspected of destroying other people's property. After being persuaded by the police station, he reconciled with the hotel operator. The second time and the third time He was also arrested for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" at the Aegean Sea Hotel.

Zhao You muttered: "Why are there only such a few short sentences? Don't you have any detailed transcripts?"

Yan Boyuan said: "The City Bureau can only find out these things."

Zhao Youdao: "There should be a detailed record file in Ping'an Street. These three times, they went to the Aegean Hotel to make trouble..."

"That's right, what do you mean he has a grudge against that boss? Look at the note. The boss of Aegean Sea said he wanted to find a lawyer and sue him for intentional arson and wounding. It was settled, but the boss didn't deal with the police very much, saying that he wanted to write a complaint letter to the city bureau to complain, and it was written in the notes."

Zhao You asked Yan Boyuan: "Are you familiar with the public security department? Has the Letters and Visits Office of the Municipal Bureau received any letters?"

"I don't know about that. I don't have so much free time to run here and there for you." Yan Boyuan asked him, "How did Teacher Yin find him?"

"It was recommended by a friend, and said that this detective is very clever. He can find cats, dogs, and people very quickly."

At this time, a woman's hoarse voice suddenly sounded downstairs, like a pre-recorded recording, which is now being played through a loudspeaker.Yan Boyuan walked to the window and looked down.The hoarse female voice complained excitedly: "Return the whole body of my daughter to the Forensic Office of Qingshi Public Security Bureau! Return the whole body of my daughter!"

Yan Boyuan crossed his arms, looked back at the whiteboard in the office that was full of names and lines, and pasted many photos of a person in black clothes and black hats intercepted from the surveillance video, and frowned, feeling overwhelmed. Annoyance: "You said that if Zhang Li is not dead, based on the evidence we have, he will probably be recruited at the first trial."

Zhao You closed the folder: "At least the dead don't lie." He also looked at the whiteboard, at the man in black on the whiteboard.The picture of the man in black is linked with the name of "Zhang Li".There was a big question mark on the connecting line, and the words "positive?" and "proof!" were written beside the question mark.Sometimes the man in black is alone, and sometimes he is surrounded by many other men in black.

Downstairs is still playing in a loop: "Return my daughter's whole body! Return my daughter's whole body!"

Yan Boyuan turned around again and looked out the window: "Why did you come back after two days of silence?" He pointed to the downstairs, a little surprised: "Isn't that Mr. Zhong? Damn, Lao Meng really got into trouble this time. gone."

"It's raining," he said.

The raindrops crackled and hit the glass windows with great force.The sky was yellow and gloomy.Yan Boyuan took a small step back and said, "It's time to get off, I've been bored all day."

Zhao You waved the folder in his hand at him: "I took it away." He stood up.

Yan Boyuan looked back at him: "Where are you going when it's raining so hard?"

Shu Le and Zhan Xuanang came in from outside now, and as soon as Shu Le entered the office, he said, "The rain is finally falling!" He looked at Zhao You, "Deputy Zhao, shall we go to Qingshui Garden tonight?"

"Yes, you drive that Mazda there, and let the Accord move by the way, the parking space before you parked in Tian Keren." Zhao You said, and gave the car keys to Shu Le.

"Where are you going? The rain is so heavy." Shu Le asked him.The sound of rain was mixed with dull thunder, and Zhan Xuanang also asked Zhao You: "Where are you going?

"I'll see you downstairs in Building 5, Qingshui Garden tonight." Zhao You looked at Zhan Xuanang with a smile, "I went to Yuanhe, and suddenly thought of something, I want to confirm it."

It was indeed raining heavily, and Zhao You had no umbrella in his car. When he arrived at the Yuanhe Street Police Station, he ran in in the rain. The two policemen on duty, Gao Ming and Cai Xun, recognized him when they saw him: " Deputy Zhao, are you calling the monitoring again?"

Zhao You said, "Yes, during the day and night from May 5th to June 28th, the surveillance cameras in this part of your jurisdiction will be called out for me to take a look."

Gao Ming found a towel for him, Zhao You wiped his face and arms, Cai Xun took him to the monitoring center, and he asked: "The social monitoring didn't capture the person you are looking for. Face? That person has a strong sense of anti-detection."

"Were you in the institute during the night of June 6nd and the early morning of June 2rd?"

"Yes, I happen to be on duty, what's the matter?"

"I want to ask if there were any police incidents such as gathering a crowd to fight or fight that day?"

Cai Xun thought for a while: "I don't remember, there were only a few people who got drunk and made trouble that day. They were all isolated cases. Let me find some policemen to inquire about it. Maybe they saw some suspicious people gathering on the road. Category."

Zhao You asked again: "Are there any bars near here that serve certain groups of people?"

Cai Xun was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, glanced at him, and asked softly: "You mean the kind that gays often go to?"

Zhao You nodded.The two entered the command center, and Cai Xun said: "I heard that there is such a room, but they haven't caused any trouble, so we don't want to investigate suddenly..." He asked: "The city What special action is the bureau going to take?"

"You misunderstood the misunderstanding. It's not to arrest someone, but to get to know the people around you. There are many bars here, and there are everyone. The crime rate is still so well controlled. We are publicizing that we are going around to inquire about the city. All the major sub-bureaus and police stations in the city have no advanced deeds, advanced figures, I think you can report to your police station."

Cai Xun smiled and said, "Then you have a heart." He and Zhao You sat down in front of a row of monitoring screens, Cai Xun pointed to a place in the lower left corner and said, "This is the bar called 'Beloved'. "

Zhao You rubbed his arm: "It's raining hard enough." In the surveillance video, it was raining heavily in front of Beloved Bar. In the misty mist, it was almost impossible to see the front of the bar. Only a lot of fiery red flowers and trees were swaying wildly. Fluttering in the rain.

Zhao You recognized it and asked, "Is this near the Jiutong Road?"

"Yes, it's the end of the street."

Cai Xun called out all the surveillance cameras in the police station's jurisdiction from May 5 to June 28, and said to Zhao You, "Then you watch first, I'll ask my colleagues on the patrol."

As soon as he left, Zhao You focused on watching the surveillance video, from the daytime on May 5 to the night, from the street of Xingfu Street to the end of the street, and from the street of Shuimen Street to the end of Jiutong Road... ... Then look at No. 28, No. 29... On the day of No. 30, around one o'clock in the morning, in front of Beloved's Bar, he saw a familiar figure—Xiao Man.

He came on foot from the direction of Jiutong Road. Not long after entering the bar, he came out with a man, and the two got into a taxi. On the night of the 2nd, the same bar, the same walking route, the same time, the same, and after a while he went in with a man—obviously not the one on the 31st, but another man. When he got out, he got into a taxi again.

"Deputy Zhao." Cai Xun's voice sounded, and Zhao You looked back at him, Cai Xun said: "I asked the patrolman on duty that day, what kind of DJ competition was held at the Crystal Bar on the 2nd night, many people went there, their security guards and people from the bar next door There were some verbal altercations, which were stopped by the patrol officers, and the situation was brought under control at that time."

Zhao You had some impressions of this crystal bar, and said, "It's the bar opposite the flower shop, right?"

"Correct."

"Can you adjust the screen of the patrol police's law enforcement recorder?"

"Yes, wait a minute." Cai Xun immediately called, and after a while, he found a video captured by a law enforcement monitor and showed it to Zhao You. The video was recorded at 6:2 p.m. on June 45 The recording started from left to right, and a group of young people in black and a group of young people in yellow were photographed pushing and cursing each other.

"What the hell do you want?"

"Are you doing it? Are you still doing it? The police are here, are you still doing it?"

"Brother policeman, you have seen it all. It was he who made the first move. It was him! Catch him!"

Zhao You pointed to a young man holding a mobile phone to take pictures of those people in yellow and asked Cai Xun, "Is this man called Daqiang? He often works in this area?"

Daqiang stared and yelled: "You beat me? You beat me in front of the police!!"

Cai Xun said: "Qiangzi, yes, his father sells pork at the nearby Yuanhe Vegetable Market. In the past, I beat my son, but now my son beats me. Now he works as a security guard for Crystal and lives in their staff dormitory. He is no longer in our jurisdiction. , they live in the Star District."

"Have you ever done anything, have you come in?"

"This is not."

Zhao You continued to watch the monitor, and that Daqiang went back to the Crystal Bar. After a while, a group of men in black with hats came out of the bar. Everyone's dress and figure were very similar, so it was hard to identify who Daqiang was. Is it also among them.This group of people crossed the road arrogantly, gathered at the entrance of the flower shop at 3:[-] am on the [-]rd, and dispersed after a while. At this time, the man in black who looked like Zhang Li and the Habitual Thieves also appeared, and they were all dressed in black, a group of dark people mixed together, at first glance, it was impossible to tell who was who.Two of the men in black went to the street, and three went to the end of the street. When they were close to Shuimen Street, they turned into an alley.And the person who looked like Zhang Li followed the habitual thief and continued to the end of the street.

Zhao You pressed the pause button, and after a while, he continued to watch the monitor.Not long after, a bag robbery happened at the end of the street. Zhao You saw Xiao Man again in front of Beloved. Twenty minutes later, an ambulance stopped on Shuimen Street, and Xiao Man got into a private car. The car drove north, and two ambulance personnel got off the ambulance. They stood on the street for a while, but they seemed to be unable to find their way. One of them made a phone call. After a while, they carried a stretcher to a He went into the alley—it was the one that was not monitored, and it was probably the only alley that Zhang Li used to go to and from Qingshui Garden and the factory.

Zhao You called Cai Xun: "Can you adjust the driving record for the night of 120? It was around 3:12 on the 30rd." He also asked him, "By the way, is there a place nearby where I can print photos? "

Cai Xun said: "It seems that you can rush in the Youpin Supermarket over at Jiutong."

"Can you develop film?"

"That's not clear..."

Zhao You said: "You can send me the record of 120 directly when the time comes."

After thanking Cai Xun, he came out of the police station, drove to Youpin Supermarket, took Lao Chen's film machine in the car and found a photo printing shop.The shop owner heard that he was going to develop the film, and said, "It will take a week to develop it."

"Okay, let's go." Zhao You paid the money, and the owner took the film. He came out of the store, but was stopped by a man. The man shouted: "Hey, handsome guy! That handsome guy from the barbecue shop!"

Zhao You followed the sound and saw that the person who called him was the last time when he was in the barbecue restaurant on Xingfu Street, when he went to get takeaway, he met Xiao Man by chance—the young man with greasy hair and flour noodles that the two seemed to know.Standing next to the young man was a man in a neat suit. The young man walked towards Zhao You, looked back at the man in the suit from time to time, and muttered, "I haven't seen him for several days. The last time I saw him was With this handsome guy, let me ask you."

The young man walked up to Zhao You, and greeted him with a smile: "Hi, handsome guy, have you seen Xiao Fei recently?"

"Xiao Fei?"

"It was the last barbecue, he said he was the one with you." The young man smiled frivolously, and patted Zhao You's arm, "You can't really be the one, are you?"

Zhao You smiled: "It's really a stage."

The young man immediately covered his mouth exaggeratedly: "Oh! That's so embarrassing!"

The man in the suit walked up to them at this moment, smiled at Zhao You, and asked him, "Are you also Xiao Zhi's friend?"

Zhao You looked at the young man: "Is he called Xiaofei or Xiaozhi?"

"Oh!" The young man giggled, "Others are the Sly Rabbit and Three Caves, but he is the Sly Fox with many names! Very mysterious!"

The man in the suit explained: "A long time ago when I met him in an online chat room, his name was Xiao Zhi. We had a good time together. Later, the chat room disbanded and I went abroad. I never saw him again. When Beloved saw him, I thought I had misunderstood him at first, he lost a lot of weight, his hair became long, and his whole person seemed to have changed."

The young man took Zhao You's arm and raised his eyebrows at him: "It's better to meet by chance, or have a meal together?"

Zhao You asked the man in the suit: "You used to play together in Ping'an Park?"

The man in the suit scratched his cheek, looked left and right, and nodded.Zhao You pulled out his arm, and apologized to the young man: "I'm sorry, I still have something to do, next time, leave a call, next time I have dinner, I invite you, I'll go first."

The young man left him a phone number and took care of him: "Add me on WeChat!"

Zhao You nodded with a smile, separated from the two and left Yuanhe Street.The rain was still falling, and the rain showed no sign of slowing down. All the passers-by stopped under the eaves to hide from the rain.A blooming red jacaranda tree in front of the Beloved Bar was beaten helplessly by the rain, and dropped red flowers all over the ground dejectedly.