winter past

When we arrived at the bathing place and entered the sauna room of the men's bathhouse, Zhao You almost didn't bring it up. The room was terribly hot and filled with smoke, and there were only Wang Shifang and Zhan Xuanang sitting side by side, with a large gap between them. One location - the thickest smoke in the whole sauna room, and the heaviest place will belong to that location.Both Wang Shifang and Zhan Xuanang were already sweating profusely, their faces were not very good-looking, they were panting heavily, and they were also very depressed, but their sitting postures were still calm.There were people coming in behind Zhao You, seeing the battle, he turned around and left with a towel in his hand.

Zhao You moved forward a few steps and sat down on a wooden bench that Wang and Zhan stepped on.Wang Shifang immediately reached out and squeezed his shoulder. Zhao You turned his head and smiled, and said to Wang Shifang: "Brother Changming and Xiaoman met? Have you found any news?"

Wang Shifang bent down next to him, with an intimate posture. When Zhao You asked, he retracted his hand, scratched his elbow, wiped his sweaty face with a towel, and said, "It's about reminiscing about the past, Xiao Man looks better than a few years ago, what kind of private detective is he doing recently."

"Oh, that counts as applying what you've learned, right?" Zhao You said, "Just the two of them eating?"

Wang Shifang said: "That's right, originally Chang Ming wanted to take his wife and children with him, but I didn't let him. The whole family has gone. What can the two of them talk about?"

Zhao You nodded: "Team Wang is more thoughtful."

Zhan Xuanang's toes stepped on Zhao You's back. Zhao You turned around and turned to Zhan Xuanang to be courteous: "Zhan team, you've had a hard day today. Let me massage your calf?"

He stretched out his hand to pinch Zhan Xuanang's calf, but Zhan Xuanang moved his leg away, glared at him, patted Wang Shifang, and politely said to Wang Shifang: "I just said half of what Xu Tian said?"

Wang Shifang patted his thigh, and said: "Yes! We are talking about the critical moment, that Xu Tian has a very good relationship with Lin Midong, and Lin Midong's funeral and cemetery are all arranged by him. Guess what he said He said, he didn’t know about it, he hadn’t heard of it at all, and he didn’t see it at all! When I asked him, he was still puzzled,” Wang Shifang glanced back and forth between Zhao You and Zhan Xuanang, and raised three sticks finger, and said while pulling, "He, his mother, and the master who was buried with him and Lin Midong in the third funeral, have all introduced partners to Lin Midong, and he has also been with them. Watching movies, eating, generally can After being together for a month or two, there are always people who are not suitable for this person, and it is not so easy to talk to someone, right? They didn't work out, so Xu Tian didn't think much about it, and he went to find someone he introduced to Lin Midong A distant cousin asked about it, and the cousin said she didn't see it, and was surprised."

"Xu Tian?" Zhao You blinked his eyes, "Oh, during the investigation ten years ago, you also investigated Lin Midong's colleagues in Sanfu? Captain Wang, what are you asking him about?"

Wang Shifang tugged at Zhao You's shoulder: "Isn't it the Ping'an Park you mentioned? Then I thought about it. Lin Midong's abnormality may be due to his quirks that are different from ordinary people, but he can't show it usually. If he is perverted, he becomes a perverted murderer. Do you know that the kind of person who actually lives a very depressed life, whether it is Xu Tian, ​​Xu Tian’s distant cousin, or even Lao Meng, they describe him more and more. Like a normal person, I think the more depressed this person is actually."

"Ah, have you talked about Lin Midong with Forensic Doctor Meng?" Zhao You said, "Didn't you mention Lin Midong's sexuality when the case was closed?"

Wang Shifang said: "I didn't say anything." He looked at Zhan Xuanang, "I remember that Team Lei didn't mention it in the meeting, and Dai Rou didn't mention it either."

Zhan Xuanang said: "Dai Rou talked to me today, saying that people should not be shot dead, and the physical evidence is solid, and she and Xiaoman both heard that Lin personally admitted that he did those cases, so they are entangled with this person It doesn’t matter if it’s gay or straight.” He looked at Zhao You and said, “It was Lin Midong that I mentioned to Lao Meng. After we asked Qu Yingying, Dai Rou and I talked to Lao Meng together. Dai Rou didn't feel ashamed to refuse the suggestion that came along with the flow."

"What did he say about Lin Midong?" Zhao You asked.

"He said that when he was in the funeral home, he often met with Lin Midong, and they didn't have a deep friendship. At that time, he didn't see anything unusual about him. He also said that he was very serious about his work, and sometimes asked him to help him dissect the corpse. , Speaking of which, Lao Meng is very regretful..." Zhan Xuanang touched his sweaty head, and lowered his head halfway.

Wang Shifang said: "Let's get down to business, let me tell you how Dai Rou told you that Lin Midong's position was determined in the Aegean Sea back then."

Zhan Xuanang nodded, looked at Zhao You, his expression and tone were dignified, and said: "Dai Rou said so, they re-read the statement of the suspicious person, and felt that Lin Midong's statement was suspicious, so they went to investigate again He received rumors from Lin Midong's colleagues that he suspected Lin Midong's sexual orientation, and in several cases at that time, none of the victimized women had ever been raped, which is rare in such cases. At the beginning, I had a guess, what if the murderer had no interest in women? The killing was purely catharsis, not related to sex? After all, he killed people regardless of gender or age. After hearing about Lin Midong’s sexual orientation, plus Xiaoman also found out that Lin Midong's father had worked as a barefoot doctor in a mountain village before. It is not ruled out that he does not need professional medical training to master certain medical knowledge, and it is not ruled out that he has the ability to apply this knowledge to embalming and Anatomy of the human body, and you think, in those suspected cases before 08, did the techniques gradually become more detailed and precise, as if a person slowly mastered more proficient skills through practice, Lin Min The records in Dong’s notebooks are probably the data of his practice.”

Zhan Xuanang paused for a moment, and his voice became deeper and deeper: "He seems to be trying to make a perfect and incorruptible work."

Wang Shifang wiped his sweat, got up and poured a spoonful of water on the sauna stone, and stood silently behind the basin where the stone was placed.Smoke engulfed most of his back.

Zhan Xuanang continued: "Then Xiaoman went to Ping'an Park, took Lin Midong's photo and asked around, and learned that he often meets people he meets online at Aegean Sea."

Zhao You said: "That day is June 6th, the day he killed Lin Midong?"

"Well, someone in Ping'an Park said that Lin Midong would go to the Aegean Sea that day, and Xiaoman went to find him. He was afraid that the news about Lin Midong would spread too quickly, and Lin Midong might run away if he heard the rumors. Decided to run over to stabilize him first."

Wang Shifang grabbed Zhao You's knee, squeezed it tightly, and said: "Is it very tricky? Xu Tian and Dai Rou, who is lying? I have been a criminal policeman for so many years. I saw Xu Tian today. According to my observation , he absolutely did not lie."

Zhan Xuanang said: "I feel that Dai Rou is not lying..."

Wang Shifang said: "Xu Tian's expression at the time was shocking and a bit like..." He scratched his cheeks, and said after a long time, "It's an unacceptable feeling, and he immediately lost interest in talking to me. He happily came to tell me that old Meng Duo was suspicious, so suspicious, and I mentioned that Lin Midong might be gay, he was like eating a fly."

Zhan Xuanang said: "Some people are prejudiced against homosexuals."

Wang Shifang said: "Then homosexuality is abnormal...but there are a lot of abnormal people in the world."

Zhao You held his face together, and said: "Dai Rou said that Xiaoman found out that Lin Midong's father was a barefoot doctor, and after they combined the information, they felt that Lin Midong was suspicious, so, according to her point of view, it was Lin Midong's father. Did you find out before Mi Dong was killed?"

Wang Shifang blinked his eyes blankly: "What do you mean by making such a big circle? After Lin Midong was shot dead, Xiaoman went to live in Hongfeng, and then resigned. I guess it was exciting enough," He patted Zhao You, "If it were you, would you be willing to touch people and things related to this case again after being so stimulated? I heard that he kept picking his own wounds when he joined Hongfeng, and he always had nightmares in the middle of the night. "

Zhao You smirked twice, but didn't answer.Zhan Xuanang breathed out his nostrils, and facing Wang Shifang, he didn't give Zhao You a look at all: "There is really no comparison between people. This kid's nerves are thicker than a telephone pole. What troubles can he have? What can he suffer?" Excitement?" He rubbed his chin, puzzled: "Supposedly Xiaoman used to fight drugs in Yunnan, the environment is more dangerous? He's fine, right?"

Wang Shifang shook her head: "I was born in sorrow, and died in peace... I thought that I would live a comfortable life when I returned to Qingshi, but I didn't expect to meet a pervert who is more vicious than a drug dealer."

Zhao You sniffed, and he was thinking about Xiaoman again. Zhan Xuanang and Wang Shifang kept talking about him, but he had no choice but to keep thinking about him.

Some of him thought of his sun-tanned hair, some of his golden outline, and some of him sitting under the smelly bridge and asking him if he stinks.

What is smelly and what is fragrant?

People who don't like the smell of cigarettes think it smells bad, and people who don't like alcohol think it smells bad.He doesn't like cigarettes, and he doesn't like alcohol.Xiaoman always smelled heavily of cigarettes, and sometimes reeked of alcohol.He likes the way he smells.It's not that he has the mentality of loving the house and black, he still doesn't like the smell of cigarettes and alcohol on Xiaoman's body, but Xiaoman is like this, he just carries this smell all the time.He totally accepts it, he likes to smell like that on him.

Zhan Xuanang said at this time: "On the 30th day, Dai Rou and her daughter had dinner together. After the meal, I went back to the Municipal Bureau. I went to the gun store to check. At 07:30 that night, she applied for a gun, a revolver, and a flat head bullet."

Wang Shifang said: "The information in the gun store shows that the gun didn't fire a single bullet that night."

Zhan Xuanang said: "The timing is right. Xiaoman contacted her before entering the Aegean Sea and told her that she might be in danger, so she applied for a gun and rushed away." He glanced at Zhao You: "What do you want to ask?" Is it?"

Zhao Youdao: "What happened to Qu Yingying?"

"Are you curious? You want to know?" Zhan Xuanang raised his eyebrows, "Then why don't you go to interrogate yourself?"

Wang Shifang laughed loudly, and embraced Zhao You: "Who doesn't know that our Xiao Zhao is allergic to the interrogation room, and feels uncomfortable when he enters it, so let him go."

Zhao You scratched his arm: "Hey, just hearing this name makes me itchy all over, and my dad scared me. When I was young, whenever something happened to me, he would interrogate me. He was in the Commission for Discipline Inspection at that time. That posture... ..."

Zhao You shivered as he spoke.Zhan Xuanang shaved the back of his head, and Zhao You shrank his neck to laugh along with him.Zhan Xuanang cleared his throat, and then said: "Qu Yingying explained that her brother, who is five years older than her, works under the crown prince, and the two of them have not been in touch for a long time. Her mother ran away with someone after she was born. , her father left early again, her brother left the society very early, and she lived with her aunt all the time. The name Qu Yingying was also changed later. Her original surname was Sun. After becoming famous, her brother asked her to borrow money, and she borrowed money from her soft heart Now the prince knows that she has become a star, so he wants to help her set up a company. The little girl is very vigilant, knowing that the gangsters will find nothing good for her. If the company opens, it might be For money laundering, she refused all the time, so her brother went to their company to make trouble. She stopped working because of this. She was going to go abroad. She had already applied for schools in the United States. She wanted to avoid the limelight, but ended up going to the airport. On the way, the prince's people took her back to Qingshi, saying that they wanted her to think carefully and not force her, but they kept following her. That day in Yanzigou, she was invited to talk about starting a company, and the little girl was also afraid. , committed suicide several times because of this brother."

Wang Shifang said: "Anyway, let's check her statement now."

Zhan Xuanang said: "The fourth team said that they checked a batch of guns from Xihaicang, and said that they might have been bought by the prince, and they want to fight Li..." Zhan Xuanang made a gesture of swinging a knife.

Wang Shifang sighed, and said: "The fourth group means to close the net, but it's a pity to close it now. The protective umbrella over the Yanzigou has not been dug out."

Zhao You listened silently, Yanzigou is not a bad place, there is no one in the morning, it is quiet, and the river under the Hongqi bridge is still clear, when the weather is cooler, the smell there may not be so bad, when the weather is cooler , the maple trees in Montenegro will turn red, and he can ask Xiaoman to climb the mountain.He ate some meat from the sauce bone that he removed today, but he didn't vomit, so next time he will order takeaway from that family, and then remove some meat for him to eat. He can also bring a small refrigerator with iced Coke.Drinking ice-cola on the mountain in autumn, if Xiaoman feels cold, he will rub his hands for him. He needs to wear a scarf, gloves, and a pair of shoes for him—he is wearing flip-flops to climb the mountain today. Just dirty.

He should have seen the red maple in Montenegro, and he also went to Montenegro in autumn ten years ago.How was he dressed then, did he smell as if he had been smoked?

Zhan Xuanang snapped his fingers in front of Zhao You: "Speak!"

Zhao You said: "It's too hot...I can't even turn my head, so I have to go out and take it easy."

He grabbed the towel and slipped out of the sauna room, went back to the locker room, took out his cell phone, and sent a WeChat message to a person nicknamed "Yuanyuan Yuanyuan".He asked, "Are you free tonight? Have a meal?"

"Tohara Yuanyuan" replied in the next second: "OK."

Zhao You posted a location. "Tohara Yuanyuan" quickly returned a shy expression, and replied: Bathing place, wow.

Zhao You asked again: "The one in the suit last time, can you contact me?"

"Tohara Yuanyuan" turned back a crying face, and wrote: "Handsome guy, you're a drunkard who doesn't care about drinking!"

After a while, he sent an emoji of blowing a kiss, and replied, "I called you."

He asked Zhao You: "Have you seen Xiaofei recently? You can't even contact him. If you see him, tell him that Mr. Lin misses him very much."

"Mr. Lin?"

"Azhan."

Zhao You returned a smiling face: "It must be conveyed."

At this time, both Zhan Xuanang and Wang Shifang also came out of the bathhouse, and the three of them stood in front of their respective wardrobes to change clothes. Both Wang Shifang and Zhan Xuanang put on the clothes they came in, and only Zhao You put on the clothes in the bathroom. bathrobe.When there was no one around, Wang Shifang greeted them and left first.Zhan Xuanang looked at the time and said, "I have to go too, what are you doing?"

"I have to lie down, I'm so bored that I can't breathe now," Zhao You said.

"As far as your physical fitness is concerned, let you rest and sleep more!" Zhan Xuanang pushed Zhao You out, "You can ask for a day off tomorrow, and don't give me a sudden death."

Zhao You repeatedly agreed, sent Zhan Xuanang to the door, walked to the direction leading to the rest hall, Zhan Xuanang waved to him, and went out, Zhao You stood in the corridor for a long time, turned back to the locker room, After taking the police officer's card, he went in the direction of the rest hall.He told "Farhara Wishing House": "I'm eating in the rest hall."

He sat down at a table for four in the corner, took some fruits and snacks, and waited while eating.About half an hour later, a young man who was full of fragrance sat across from him.

"Here, the person you want to meet." The young man smiled and looked at the wheat-colored man standing behind him, "He's called A Jie, it's convenient Jie, oops, you exchange WeChat messages and chat by yourself."

That A Jie is the man in a suit that Zhao You has met twice before, and also knows Xiao Man.

Zhao You hurriedly said, "Sit, sit."

The young man said, "Just call me Xiaoyuan." Both he and Ajie sat down.

Zhao You looked at the two of them with a smile, and said, "I won't go around in circles with you. In fact, I came here to ask you about Xiaofei."

Ajie's gaze tightened obviously, and his sitting posture became more rigid. He said, "You are also a reporter, right?"

"Also? Has a reporter asked you about Xiao Fei before?"

Ajie stammered: "Well..." He got up and said, "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

Xiao Yuan didn't know what to do, wanted to stop A Jie, and looked at Zhao You curiously: "Why are you asking about Xiao Fei?"

Zhao You took out his police officer ID and pointed to the chair where A Jie was sitting on.Xiao Yuan covered his mouth, not daring to breathe out, A Jie was taken aback, looked around in embarrassment, and sat back down again.

Xiao Yuan suddenly raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender: "I don't know anything! I just met him in a bar! We just play together! We play healthy games, officer..." He swallowed his saliva and carefully looked at Zhao You, "Is your certificate real?" Xiao Yuan took out his mobile phone and wanted to take a picture, Zhao You pressed his wrist, and Xiao Yuan's two thin eyebrows immediately frowned. Together, they kept crying out for pain, surrendering and begging for mercy: "You ask, you ask."

Zhao You smiled, folded his hands on the table, pressed the corner of his ID with his arm, and looked at A Jie: "You seem to have known him for a long time?"

A Jie looked very downcast, and his expression was also very resistant, so he asked him: "Don't you know him too? If you have anything to ask, just ask him yourself."

Zhao You ate a soft candy and said, "Yes, I know him. My cousin met him on a blind date, so I know him. I've only met him twice."

Ajie said: "What did he do? Could it be..."

"What?" Zhao You knocked on the table, "I'm asking you here, which means that the matter is not serious, do you understand?"

Xiao Yuan leaned close to the table, raised his palms and said, "I swear to God, officer, we really haven't engaged in any illegal multiplayer activities! Really!"

Zhao You looked at A Jie: "Tell me about what happened to you ten years ago."

A Jie sighed, picked up the small teacup on the table, drank it down, and said: "We used to have a chat room, ten years ago, everyone chatted very well, and we met several times offline , They all use their screen names. At that time, Xiaofei’s screen name was Winter Solstice Eating Tangyuan, so we all called him Xiao Zhi. Then there was a veteran character in our chat room, whose screen name was Dragon Boat Festival, and he joined very early. The chat room is too small, he came relatively late, probably in April 08, he has a very good relationship with Duan Wu, and then..."

Zhao You added to him, and A Jie drank another cup in one breath: "The chat room was disbanded in July 08. I have never seen Duan Wu, nor Xiao Zhi. There are rumors that Duan Wu is actually the love Killer Qinhai, the chat room was disbanded because more and more people spread the rumor, our boss, who founded the chat room, closed it out of trouble."

Xiao Yuan's eyes turned into copper bells: "Fuck! Damn! Now these cases are said to be imitators... You, you police, don't you suspect that Xiao Fei did it? I heard that he was hospitalized before What, shit, could it be that now that the body has recovered, he helped his old lover to take revenge on the society?? Shouldn’t he seek revenge from the police? Wasn’t the Aegean killer shot dead by the police?”

A Jie said: "Later a reporter found our boss and asked about the Dragon Boat Festival and Xiaozhi."

Zhao You asked him, "Can you still contact the boss?" He took out his phone, shook it, and said with a smile, "Let's contact on WeChat?"

A Jie reluctantly added him as a friend, Zhao You said, "Do Xiao Zhi and Duan Wu often meet at the Aegean Sea Hotel?"

"I don't know about that. When we were meeting offline, the two of them disappeared together if we didn't pay attention." Ajie said, "Officer, I've told you everything I know."

"What do they usually talk about?"

"what?"

Xiao Yuan rubbed his ears and said, "This... If you are an accomplice, you wouldn't talk about murder in front of so many people, would you?"

Zhao You smiled and said, "Personal interest."

Ajie said: "They all seem to like watching old Hong Kong movies, and they all like listening to a radio program. Oh, yes, they will order songs for each other. What is the name of the program? I heard it when I took a taxi the other day. , broadcast at five or six o'clock in the evening."

""Accompany me with music"?"

"Yes, yes, this is it."

Zhao Youdao: "Has the reporter you mentioned ever approached you?"

"No, he wanted the chat record, but our boss didn't give it to us. That reporter was too cunning. At the beginning, he pretended to be the same kind and approached our boss. After getting acquainted with him, he used all kinds of clichés. Fortunately, the boss saw him through in time."

Zhao You distributed jellybeans and nuts to the two, and said, "Don't worry, my cousin actually thinks that Little Flying Man is good, and she plans to get engaged. Before getting engaged, she asked me to check his background, and I found out that he has a lot of house opening records." , and they are all with men, I feel a little strange."

"Oh, a woman's sixth sense!" Xiao Yuan patted his chest and rolled his eyes. , you see he has been sleeping outside, many times they are two drunks hugging each other and sleeping together!"

"He doesn't have a fixed partner?"

Xiaoyuan shrugged his shoulders: "It's fine if someone can accompany you. There's no need to fix who will accompany you, right?" He looked at Zhao You with a smile again, and went to get his certificate, "Is this true? It's my first time See, I don't take pictures, can you take a look?"

Zhao You put away the police officer's card, stood up and said, "I have to go back to my cousin, thank you." He took care of him: "Don't talk about today's things, there are many rumors, you guys Say yes?"

A Jie nodded, Xiao Yuan didn't take it seriously, swallowed what was in his mouth, and called him: "Don't you want to have dinner?" He said, "I really need a fixed partner!"

Zhao You grabbed a peanut cake and stuffed it into his mouth: "I really have to go, I must eat next time, thank you for the information you provided."

He strode out of the lounge, his mind is now full of images of Room 404 of the Aegean Sea Hotel.He thought of Xiaoman and Lin Midong sitting on that big bed, watching a movie together in front of the blue sky and white clouds of Santorini. They should be watching a Hong Kong movie from the 90s and [-]s. In the movie, the special effects audio and video when the characters fight A curtain was drawn.