sincerity of lies

After stealing in the small backyard of the police station for a while to breathe, the two men returned to the office hand in hand.

Today's investigation on Zheng Xuewang has yielded a lot of new news, and the direction of the investigation will also change to a certain extent.

First of all, the attention to the three persons involved in the case, Chen Jiahe, Cao Zhengbin, and Meng Zhonghai, has to continue. However, Cao Zhengbin and Meng Zhonghai left early and their whereabouts are hidden. The police have not yet caught their feet.Only Chen Jiahe showed up in the surveillance, and the police who checked the surveillance were stepping up their pursuit along this line.

Secondly, the circumstances of Zheng Xuejun's death must be clarified. If Chen Jiashu was really involved in the fight 20 years ago, then maybe the truth of this case is as Ji Xun's intuition is, and Zheng Xuewang did it.

For this key clue, Huo Ranyin originally wanted to follow it up personally, but after thinking for a while, he arranged for Wen Yangyang and Tan Mingjiu to collect information on the people involved in the incident while visiting and investigating, and at the same time, don't forget to spare time Visit Wang Guiyu again to see if she missed or concealed anything.

In the end, Huo Ranyin planned to personally investigate with Ji Xun——

The involvement of Zheng Xuewang and Xu Xinran, the Juanshan casino mentioned by Zheng Xuewang.

Tan Mingjiu has no objection to the work arranged for himself and Wen Yangyang, but has doubts.

"Is it necessary to investigate the casino?" Tan Mingjiu wiped his face, "The case has been investigated so far, and the key points are still very obvious. There is no doubt that Zheng Xuejun, Zheng Xuejun is Zheng Xuewang's reason and motivation. We have figured this out, and the case will come to light. Yes. As for whether Zheng Xuewang is involved in gambling or where his gambling venue is, this is not our business, it is the business of the security brigade next door."

"That makes sense." Huo Ranyin nodded.

"Then—" Tan Mingjiu.

"That still needs to be investigated." Ji Xun's belated voice overshadowed Tan Mingjiu.

"Give me a reason?" Tan Mingjiu asked.

"Intuition." Ji Xun spat out two words, which were extremely lethal.

Depend on!

Tan Mingjiu gave Ji Xun a middle finger. Others said intuition is not scary, but Ji Xun said intuition is scary. Ji Xun’s intuition is just like the God of Gamblers on TV. God of Gamblers wins nine out of ten bets, and only loses at the harmless level. As for Ji Xun, ten senses and ten hits, although it is unavoidable to take some twists and turns, rough roads, and even cliff jumps on the way, but in the end they all successfully lead to the terminal.

Very mysterious, very metaphysical.

It can only be said that he is a ruthless person.

No one in the office has any doubts. Although the stars are shining, the moon is shining, and it’s early to get off work, everyone is still buried in filing and working hard. After all, the work of criminal police is different from other jobs. Human life is at stake. Do more. A little bit is a little bit, and a day is a day if it is broken early.

Ji Xun was not in a hurry to check the information: "I'll go out for a walk and bring you drinks by the way. What do you want to drink?"

"Coffee." ×N

The social animals in the office gave a very unified answer.

Ji Xun shrugged, went out, and came back after a while with both hands carrying things. His left hand was a bag of hot coffee, which was placed on the tea table for everyone to pick up, and his right hand was a transparent thermos cup with red goji berries inside. The yellow chrysanthemums were just soaked, and they were stingy in the water - a pot of wolfberry chrysanthemum tea was handed to Huo Ranyin by Ji Xun.

Huo Ranyin didn't enter his office, he just stood in the big office outside, holding a folder in his hand, casually leaning against the edge of the window sill, concentrating on his work.When Ji Xun handed over the water, he didn't pay attention to it. He didn't feel something was wrong until the water glass reached his mouth. He first took a look at the transparent thermos, and then turned his surprised gaze to Ji Xun.

"Clearing heat and improving eyesight." Ji Xun, "It also nourishes the body."

If other coffee drinkers in the office heard what Ji Xun said to Huo Ranyin at this moment, many small question marks would appear.

Co-author, only Huo Dui needs to clear away heat, improve eyesight and nourish the body. We don’t need it anymore?

Fortunately, everyone was focused on their own tasks, and no one paid much attention to them.

"Thank you." Huo Ranyin.

"You're very welcome."

Ji Xun replied, standing beside Huo Ranyin.He was thinking about where he was standing, and he couldn't get too close. If he was too close, others would find it strange; Being able to withdraw from the chaotic clues, the body immediately felt the gravitational force from Huo Ranyin.

Attract him to get closer to Huo Ranyin, and then a little closer...

Ji Xun noticed that Huo Ranyin's eyes fell on himself again, it must be his small movements that attracted attention.

He and his own body felt tug-of-war, and he took the time to say, "Look at your documents, and leave me alone."

I will post you in the air, and after posting, I will get down to business...

Huo Ranyin suddenly raised the file folder.

After spreading out the folder, he tilted his head and kissed Ji Xun.

It's short, shallow, sweet, and beautiful.

A pair of lovers in a brightly lit office, in a space where people are so busy that they can hardly breathe, the intimacy is as short as a shooting star across the night, but the aftermath of the glare, the long-lasting flash and trembling, shakes the heart of the universe .

In Xu Xinran and the casino involved by Zheng Xuewang, after a brief discussion, Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin decided: you might as well try to find the casino first.

However, Zheng Xuewang seldom went to the casino, and did not get too many intuitive clues from him to determine the location of the casino. The eyes of the two naturally shifted to Xu Xinran. Compared with Zheng Xuewang, Xu Xinran frequented Juanshan Fishing for much longer, and considering being an old gambler, it's reasonable to suspect they're all gambling in a casino.

In this way, the hope of finding the casino can be temporarily locked on Xu Xinran.

However, it is not easy to break through Xu Xinran.

Ji Xun picked up the information about Xu Xinran collected by the police before and looked through:

According to the data, although Xu Xinran is deeply involved in the vortex of gambling, his social status and economic situation are still stable. His colleagues do not have any negative comments on Xu Xinran, and the leaders also recognize Xu Xinran's professional skills and value Xu Xinran very much.

"Judging from these, Zheng Xuewang and Xu Xinran are quite similar." Ji Xun muttered.Passed professionally, valued by leaders, recognized by colleagues, and they are all surgeons, "still gamble."

"I'm afraid this is the person they want to recruit." Huo Ranyin rarely said a cold joke, "Since the organ sellers want to go to the surgery step by step, they must recruit some doctors with good skills. Don't worry, don't worry about medical trouble."

The truth is true.

Ji Xun continued to scroll down, left the work category, and came to the private field, and the difference between Xu Xinran and Zheng Xuewang came out.

Zheng Xuewang is unmarried and has no emotional entanglements at present; however, Xu Xinran is married and divorced two years ago. He has an eight-year-old son named Xu Rui, who is currently living with his ex-wife.

In addition, Xu Xinran's daily activities other than going to work are not too fancy.

Doctors in China are already busy. As the attending doctor of a large hospital, Xu Xinran has little free time. He has three meals a day in the canteen of the hospital. Other than that, he goes home every night and goes to the hospital every weekend. Juanshan fishing—in other words, he was a man who gambled in casinos when he was away from work.

"From the performance of Xu Xinran in the last questioning, it can be seen that Xu Xinran cares about children." Ji Xun said, "This coincides with the idea of ​​asking the police. After all, in the eyes of the police, tiger poison is not No matter if a tortoise is a person who wanders on the edge of crime and earns black-hearted money, when he meets his own family, he will always find some conscience that has not been wiped out."

"It just looks."

"Yes, it just looks." Ji Xun, "Xu Xinran caught your illusion of 'breaking through the criminal's psychological defense', and invited a lawyer at just the right time. It's worthless. Of course, the police don't want to deal with lawyers and the law, so they let Xu Xinran go away easily... This is his cunning... He has completely controlled your mentality, but he has hidden himself tightly Really."

"It's their mentality." Huo Ranyin's tone suddenly became a little unhappy.

"Ok?"

"At that time, I felt something was wrong." Huo Ranyin said.

"Yeah." Ji Xun caught a glimpse of her boyfriend's hidden thoughts, suppressed a smile, and hurriedly stroked his hair, "I understand that the mistakes are all due to those pre-trials who tried to fish. If you confront Xu Xinran directly, you must have dealt with him wisely and directly."

Seeing Huo Ranyin's expression, he felt comfortable.

The two told a joke, cheered up, and continued to analyze.

"If Xu Xinran only cares about gambling and money, then it will be difficult to get clues about the location of the casino from him."

The reason is very simple. If Xu Xinran wants to gamble, he will not easily sell out the casino.

In fact, besides breaking through Xu Xinran, there is another way, which is to squat directly at Juanshan and follow the car coming out of the restaurant that Zheng Xuewang said.It’s just that one doesn’t know if the casino is open on weekdays. If it doesn’t, the investigation will take a long time. Secondly, Juanshan is located in the suburbs of Ningshi and on the hills. There is not much traffic and people, and the possibility of the police’s follow-up is low. , the possibility of alerting the snake is high.

"Although Xu Xinran is cunning...but it's not all a bad thing." Ji Xun thought, "At least he will pay more attention to the situation on the road. The fully enclosed carriage can deceive others, but it may not deceive him. In any case, fantasies are meaningless. Meet people close to him, like his ex-wife and son."

Half a day on Monday was already spent collecting and analyzing Xu Xinran's data, and they had a two-hour rest in the police station. Just in time to get off work, the two of them came to visit and met Xu Xinran's ex-wife.

The ex-wife is a professional woman. After knowing the purpose and identity of Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin, she politely let them in and served tea: "If it was because of Xu Xinran, we have been divorced for three years. , I don't know what's going on with him now."

"What is the reason for the divorce?"

"I found out he gambled." The ex-wife smiled wryly. "Of course I quarreled with him. He probably didn't have any affection for this family at that time, and he didn't even try to persuade him to stay. After a month, we divorced, the child It's mine, half of the house for each person, I'll pay him his share, and then he's gone, that's all."

The police collected Xu Xinran's information, of course, the parties involved in the incident would not know the details.

Ji Xun: "Is there any retention at all?"

"Yes, not once..."

"Then do you think, besides gambling, was there anyone outside Xu Xinran?"

"..." The ex-wife pondered for a moment, "I didn't find any evidence. And with my woman's intuition, I don't think he has any. He and I, and the child, just have no relationship."

"Why do you keep saying that Xu Xinran has no feelings for you?" Ji Xun raised his eyebrows.

"Because...Xu Xinran couldn't wait to get divorced."

"Other than that?" Ji Xun said.

"He didn't keep you, but you did, right?" Huo Ranyin asked more bluntly.

A trace of embarrassment and shame flashed across the woman's face. It was obvious that this incident had frustrated her self-esteem, so in the chat just now, although she repeatedly emphasized that Xu Xinran had no feelings for them, she always avoided saying what really made her feel uncomfortable. The reason she feels that way.

But after a few seconds of stalemate, she still nodded reluctantly and told the police:

"That's right, I tried to keep him... After I found out about his gambling, I had a big fight with him and impulsively said the word divorce. I didn't expect him to agree immediately. Xu Xinran and I are college classmates. If it is more fashionable now, it is 'from school uniform to wedding dress'. Before I discovered Xu Xinran's secret, I thought... I personally thought...Xu Xinran was a good husband and father. And at that time, the family Although a large amount of money was missing from the account, there is no real financial crisis in the family."

"I think Xu Xinran can change..."

She lowered her head.

Women's sensibility always makes them overly optimistic about a relationship that has changed.

They are reluctant to let go of the beauty of the past, and linger until all the beauty is annihilated in reality, leaving only two hideous faces that hate each other, looking at each other.

"So after my divorce... I still kept in touch with Xu Xinran."

"For what reason?" Huo Ranyin asked.

"The police officer is not married yet, right?" The ex-wife laughed a little self-deprecatingly, "What reason does the wife need to contact her husband? Food, rice, oil, salt, children's homework, trivial matters at work, you can talk about everything. In order to get back together with him, I even spent thousands of dollars to find a master practice……"

"..." The two materialists remained silent politely.

"IQ tax." The ex-wife also judged herself.Perhaps the most embarrassing thing to see people has been said, and she gradually let go, no longer secretive, "In short, no matter what I say or do, Xu Xinran is very cold, and basically does not reply to my WeChat information."

"Is it much different from before?"

"Yeah." The ex-wife nodded, "He is a surgeon and has been married for so many years. I also know that he is busy. I used to feel that no matter how busy he is, he will reply in time as long as he is free. After the divorce, we can only Say, he's finally freed from the shackles. But even so, I'm still...a little bit of an old dream, until that happened."

"Which thing?" Ji Xun was a little curious.

"Xiao Rui is sick."

Children of Xiao Rui, Xu Rui, Xu Xinran and his ex-wife.

"It was raining when I got home from school, and I started to have a fever at seven or eight o'clock, but I had something to work overtime that day, and my child was very sensible, so I kept silent. When I came back at midnight, he was in a daze with fever. I was panicked and scared at the time, and I sent countless messages to Xu Xinran, and made many phone calls, but to no avail..."

In a close relationship, children depend on their parents, and wives depend on their husbands.

They repeat this socially established concept time and time again, until the concept deepens into a habit that is imprinted in the body, and then until the habit is smashed by the party who maintains the dependence.

"It's probably like this. Xu Xinran didn't care about us a long time ago. It's okay, it's over anyway." The ex-wife smiled a little ugly, "Can these help you?"

"Very helpful." Huo Ranyin said.

This answer made the ex-wife feel better, and she let out a long breath.

Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin stood up, ready to leave, Huo Ranyin went out first, Ji Xun took a step slowly, just in time to hear a child's cry from the room: "Mom, is the police uncle gone?"

He turned his head and saw a boy with thick head and thick head stuck his head out from the study room, and glanced at him quietly.

The ex-wife who was tidying up the tea table hurried up and said, "Let's go. Are you hungry? Mom is going to cook now."

As she spoke, she followed the child's gaze and met Ji Xun's eyes.

Ji Xun thought for a while: "It is said that the ex-boyfriend is not as good as a dog. What about the ex-husband? Since he is alive, he is dead. Let him die in peace."

The ex-wife was taken aback.

Ji Xun continued: "There are still many good men, just level the pit and move on."

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, went out, and entered the elevator in the corridor.

"The emotion expert is here." Huo Ranyin said.

"I don't know why, but when I talk about emotional issues, I'm always very convincing." Ji Xun looked at the fuzzy metal box wall of the elevator suspiciously, "Do I have a face that can read thousands of sails? "

"Then have you read it?" Huo Ranyin asked.

"Well, I read it."

"?"

"One sail is worth a thousand sails."

"... Poor mouth." Huo Ranyin snorted softly, and happily pressed the elevator button.

The elevator door closed, and the projector installed in the elevator projected a small advertisement on the top of the elevator box door. They began to discuss what they had just learned from Xu Xinran's ex-wife:

"It doesn't look like she's telling a lie. At present, there is no reason or need to tell a lie." Ji Xun said.

Huo Ranyin nodded slightly.

"Combined with the cigarettes and lighters found on the coffee table in the house, and a pair of large-size men's sneakers in the shoe cabinet, it can be preliminarily determined that Xu Xinran's ex-wife has a new love partner, and the child of this love partner does not object."

This one is also very simple.

Judging from the intimacy of mother and child, the relationship between mother and child is very good. If the child rejects the love object, it is impossible for the love object to enter the house and leave behind personal belongings.

"How do you think Xu Xinran treats mother and child?" Huo Ranyin asked a question.

"Ha——" Ji Xun, "This is really a good question. From the point of view of the ex-wife, the ex-wife has a heart like iron; but from my point of view, the situation may be the opposite. Xu Xinran, a highly educated An intellectual, knowing that he has already stepped into the abyss of illegal gambling, and that sooner or later he will go bankrupt and go to jail, so he chose to let his wife and children go through his conscience before things got out of hand. A way out. Even the so-called accidental discovery of Xu Xinran gambling by his wife is likely to be an elaborate arrangement by Xu Xinran."

"It's too idealistic." Huo Ranyin commented.

"Believe me, men don't look so gentle when they are cruel." Ji Xun, "The most important thing is that the ex-wife thinks that Xu Xinran did not cheat. During the police investigation, there is no second relationship with Xu Xinran. And people, living in this world, always need emotional sustenance, Xu Xinran is probably just hiding his own emotions with his usual cunning fox-like attitude... Maybe the last time I asked Xu Xinran , your direction is right, but your technique is wrong. After all, the truth is the best lie.”

"Ding" sound.

The elevator goes to the first floor.

The two walked out of the elevator, and the corners of Ji Xun's mouth gradually raised: "If this conjecture is correct, I know how to face Xu Xinran. Xu Xinran must have a scar of guilt on his heart..."