fool.

Zhao You sat in the dark for nearly half a minute before the light in the interrogation room was turned on again.Hang Fengnian, the captain of the First Brigade of the Yancheng Criminal Investigation Detachment, came in from the outside. He added a thin coat over his long-sleeved uniform, shrugged his shoulders and greeted Zhao You politely: "I'm sorry, Xiao Zhao, Lou It’s too old, the circuit is aging, and it’s an old problem. When the air conditioner, dehumidifier, lights and computer are turned on together, the power supply will not work. Originally, I suggested that I take you directly to the new building, mainly the new building and the airport. East, one is in the west, too far away, go now, mess around, then you don’t sleep tonight, don’t mind.”

Zhao You smiled, and the air conditioner hanging on the wall behind him beeped and began to send out cold air.Hang Fengnian rubbed his hands with a smile, and looked at a dehumidifier in the corner of the room, the machine was silent.Zhao You said, "Isn't it going to burn out?"

Hang Fengnian went to the front of the dehumidifier, squatted down, touched it, patted it, and said thoughtfully: "It's possible, very likely." He also muttered: "The summer in Yancheng is so strange. It’s not too hot, it’s just that the room is very humid, and if you don’t turn on the dehumidifier, look at the soft wall, it will get moldy right away.”

Zhao You looked at him, and chatted leisurely: "Is this some kind of tropical marine climate?"

"What sex?"

"Oceanic."

"That should be it, surrounded by the sea on three sides." Hang Fengnian suddenly patted the dehumidifier vigorously, Zhao You was startled, and asked in a low voice: "Then...there are a lot of seafood?"

"Many, the big prawns in red sauce are especially delicious."

Gao Changqing also came back in. He was also wearing a uniform and a thin coat. The head of the Yancheng Criminal Investigation Detachment was still holding a lot of documents in his hands-several file bags were placed at the bottom, and many copies with scraps of paper were stacked on top of them. Paper.She closed the door.The air suddenly stopped circulating, and the musty smell gathered in an instant, enveloping the less than six-square-meter interrogation room.

The smell of ink is also very strong.Zhao You leaned on the back of the interrogation chair and looked at Hang Fengnian and Gao Changqing.

"Xiaohang, have you finished? Come here when you're done." Gao Changqing put down those file bags and documents on the only desk in the room.

"Okay, okay." Hang Fengnian stood up holding his knees, helped his lower back, and sighed, "Captain Gao, the power went out just now, and the dehumidifier seems to have burned out."

"Don't worry about it, we'll be moving there next week, and we won't need it anymore. It's been used for several years, and we'll get rid of the ones that should be eliminated. Why keep the broken ones?" Gao Changqing looked up at Zhao You , showing a smile: "Xiao Zhao, I'm sorry, small place, this environment...cough..." She raised her chin and said, "It's definitely not comparable to Qingshi, I've wronged you."

Zhao You smacked his lips and said, "Not to mention, our city bureau building has only been newly built for two years, and the air conditioner still loses its temper every now and then. Shixia is a famous stove in China..."

Hang Fengnian laughed twice, walked to the desk and sat down, opened the laptop, fiddled with a hand-held video camera on the table, and said to Zhao You in a congenial manner: "I'm afraid that the circuit will fail again, the two people on the top Let’s take a picture, let’s take a picture here too, shall we?”

Zhao You said, "Okay, no problem."

Gao Changqing also smiled, sat down too, picked up a glass thermos cup on the table, took a leisurely sip of tea, and said, "I'll take you to see our new building later." She pressed her hands On those papers, smiled at Zhao You: "Xiao Zhao, let's continue."

The overhead light in the room flickered twice, the sound of the air conditioner suddenly became louder, and gusts of cool wind rushed towards Zhao You.Zhao You was wearing short sleeves, so he couldn't help shivering, Hang Fengnian asked him, "Get you a coat?"

Zhao You sneezed and said, "It's okay, it should be soon, right? This..." He squinted his eyes and looked at the camera facing him on the table. The interrogation room was too small, and he and this were dark and deep. The shot is so close that he can clearly see a person in the shot who is handcuffed to the table of the interrogation chair, his arms are bound by a metal ring, and his feet are also buckled on the interrogation chair. Zhao You looked at each other.

Zhao Youqian asked with a smile: "It hasn't opened yet, can you talk some gossip?"

"Tell me, what?" Gao Changqing asked with a smile.

"Let's go through a procedure, right? I'm not a lawyer or anything, and I haven't contacted Lao Zhou for a long time. After he surrendered, he suddenly said that he wanted to see me, so we must go through this procedure." Zhao You moved He lowered his tightly cuffed wrists, and spoke tentatively.

Gao Changqing smiled and looked down at the documents. Hang Fengnian also smiled and nodded with a smile. At this moment, a mobile phone on the desk vibrated, and the WeChat notification sounded.Hang Fengnian picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, and said to Zhao You: "Today's takeaway coupon."

Zhao You blinked and said, "Then you can get it for me. This coupon is issued on a regular basis every day, and you can get it within a limited time. After passing this village, there will be no such shop."

"Okay, what's your mobile phone password?" Hang Fengnian asked casually.

Gao Changqing was still looking down at the document, and there was an extra pen in her hand, and she turned the pen without making a sound.Zhao You said: "66666."

Gao Changqing raised his head and laughed, Hang Fengnian burst out laughing, unlocked the screen lock of Zhao You's phone, tapped it twice, and said, "We are also doing routine work, okay, get it."

Gao Changqing kindly echoed: "Xiao Zhao, what about you, don't think too much, we really don't take you as a prisoner for interrogation, if we really plan to interrogate you, we will take you to the new building, in fact, we are now working and handling cases They are all in the new building, but there are still some data files in the old building, and some police officers are doing some work to organize and store the files. This interrogation room has not been used for several months. You are right. , Lao Zhou suddenly said that he wanted to see you, and we were also very puzzled, so the higher-ups issued an order to find out about your interpersonal relationship, the handcuffs... oh, you have to be handcuffed when you sit on this chair, this chair is This operation, you are also part of the judicial system, understand, long live the understanding."

Hang Fengnian put down Zhao You's cell phone, and said to Gao Changqing: "Captain Gao, I don't think there is anything wrong with Xiao Zhao. I have inquired about it all the way here. He and Lao Zhou haven't seen each other for more than ten years, right, Xiao Zhao?" Zhao?"

Zhao You glanced at the two surveillance cameras on the ceiling and stroked the small table, which was spotless.He said: "I understand, I definitely understand. If you have anything you want to ask, just ask, I will definitely know everything."

Gao Changqing and Hang Fengnian exchanged glances, Hang Fengnian turned on the camera, Gao Changqing spoke again, and asked Zhao You, "Zhao You, what is your relationship with Zhou Sichang?"

Her voice became tense, and the smile on her face disappeared.Zhao You didn't immediately restrain his smile, he sat still relaxed, looked at a red dot under the camera, and confessed honestly: "teacher-student relationship, the 08th class of the Central Criminal Police School, the Department of Investigation, Lao Zhou is a criminal investigation lecturer."

Gao Changqing continued to ask earnestly: "How is your relationship usually?"

Zhao You was a little puzzled, and moved forward: "Are you asking about my relationship with Lao Zhou when I was still in school? I haven't seen him since I graduated."

Hang Fengnian said loudly: "We already know this. Tell me about your relationship with Lao Zhou when you were in school. Did he take special care of you? Was your father already in the office of the Discipline Inspection Commission of your province at that time?"

Zhao You was taken aback, then froze, leaned back a little, and shook hands.Gao Changqing followed: "Think about it carefully, and then we'll talk after we think about it. We have already contacted your classmates and teachers from that year, and inquired about you and Lao Zhou."

No one in the room had a smile on their faces or eyes.The air conditioner kept blowing out an almost piercingly cold wind. Zhao Youse shrank back, thought for a while, and asked, "Do you want to talk about Lao Zhou writing me a letter of recommendation when I graduate?"

Gao Changqing frowned slightly, and said loudly: "You know what we are talking about."

Hang Fengnian flipped through the documents on the table, and said sternly: "When you graduated, Zhou Sichang asked your dean, instructor, and principal to write you a letter of recommendation to recommend you to work in the provincial department. , is there such a thing?"

Zhao You nodded.Gao Changqing slapped the table with a "bang": "Is it because your father is a member of the Disciplinary Committee and a provincial cadre, do you feel that you have privileges?"

Zhao You shook his head again and again, and replied earnestly: "I only found out later, it scared me to death, so I told Mr. Zhou that it was not suitable, and my grades were not particularly outstanding, so it was really not suitable."

Gao Changqing raised his eyebrows, poked the folded file bags with a pen, and said in a low voice, "It's not just not outstanding, your classmates have already said that you don't pay attention in class, you always doze off, what about your grades? That is to say, at the mid-level level, you are always absent-minded in the interrogation class, have you not been criticized by your teacher Wang?"

Zhao Yula's face was long, and she seemed to be miserable: "To be honest with you, I originally studied criminal investigation because I entered the wrong profession, otherwise I wouldn't have worked for a few years and then turned to political propaganda."

Hang Fengnian raised his eyebrows and jokingly said: "You entered the wrong line and became the vice captain. Isn't the promotion review in Qingshi too vain? Don't you come through the back door?"

Zhao You said: "I was lucky. I really didn't have any privileges, and I really didn't go through any backdoors. After graduation, I solved several big cases with our captain Zhan. Captain Zhan wanted to promote young people when he was getting old. , just take me..."

Gao Changqing interrupted him and said, "I'm not enjoying my job in criminal investigation. If I wanted to transfer to another department, I transferred it. You still say you don't have privileges?"

Zhao You hurriedly defended: "I have passed the internal assessment. According to the level, I am still demoted..."

Gao Changqing persisted: "I think it's an obvious fall and a secret rise, right? After going to the political propaganda area, you will be promoted steadily in the future? I think you will be promoted to the regular department next year, right? If you change to criminal investigation, you How many cases do you have to solve to become a serious subject? How old do you think your team Zhan became the captain, and how many years did you work as the captain before you were promoted?"

Zhao You fell silent for a moment. He wanted to grab his hair, but his hands were bound, so he had to scratch his face. He seemed speechless.Then Hang Fengnian changed the subject, his attitude suddenly softened, and he asked him: "Then what did you want to learn?"

Zhao You sat in the interrogation chair depressedly, looked at the camera, and twisted his body. In the camera, he seemed to be sitting very uncomfortable, with the corners of his mouth hanging upside down, looking aggrieved and useless. After a while, Zhao You replied: " Chef, my family refused, so I got angry with my family and reported to the criminal investigation. I know that those criminal police don’t stay at home 360 ​​days a year. Very naive, I regretted it in a few years, Team Hang, Team Gao, you all do criminal investigation, you know the working hours of criminal investigation, it’s simply abnormal, I’m 28, and I’m still single, cough..." Zhao You looked at himself in the camera, smiled wryly, and said in a bitter tone: "A girlfriend who I talked with for three or four years ago has become a fiancee, and because I can't be contacted all the time, I almost caused her to be arrested." Kidnapped by the underworld, she dumped me."

The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, and his head gradually lowered.

Hang Fengnian said: "Okay, okay, what are you talking about, let me ask you, when was the last time you saw Zhou Sichang?"

"Graduation, the graduation ceremony." Zhao You raised his head again, but his voice was still very deep. He looked at the man and woman in front of him and the camera, and said, "He asked me, has the work arrangement been settled? I said , I haven’t taken the exam yet, so why did the work arrangement come down? Lao Zhou has nothing to say. Speaking of which, the recommendation letter is not easy to use now. I still have to take the exam and have real grades. Both of them are also Did you come to Yancheng for the exam? Where is your hometown? I originally wanted to take the exam farther away, but then I thought about what if the climate and food were not suitable, so I gave up and applied for a city in the province."

Gao Changqing said: "Lao Zhou treats you well, you don't walk around with him after graduation? You haven't seen him in more than ten years? You are too unkind as a student, right?"

"I really haven't seen each other again." Zhao You sighed deeply, "Really, let me tell you the truth, if the letter of recommendation is real, then I will definitely send old Zhou a warm greeting every day, and visit my house during the holidays. , Isn’t it a failure... Besides, when I was in school, Lao Zhou treated me and other classmates equally, and I didn’t feel that he paid special attention to me, so I was really scared when I knew about the recommendation letter. Because of love, I called my dad that night and asked him if this is considered a violation of law and discipline, and my roommates in the same dormitory can all testify to this."

Zhao You suddenly asked: "Sending text messages for New Year's greetings in groups...doesn't it count as seeing?"

Hang Fengnian asked, "When was the last time you communicated?"

"This year's Spring Festival group sent New Year's greetings text messages. I sent 'The Year of the Dog is coming, the career is prosperous, the body is prosperous, and the new year will be prosperous'. The old Zhou replied 'The rooster is farewell to the new year, the dog is here, and the purple is auspicious and good luck' .”

Gao Changqing frowned, not quite believing it: "How long ago did this happen, do you still remember it so clearly?"

Zhao You smiled and said: "The license plate that picked me up is Hai A7686V2. I and the Hangzhou team, Xiao Mo came to Yancheng by Hainan Airlines A67. My seat is J18."

Hang Fengnian signaled him to stop, and he and Gao Changqing whispered, the air conditioner was very loud, and the two spoke very softly, and they covered their mouths with their hands when they spoke, Zhao You couldn't make out what they said at all, you come here I went, and after several back and forth conversations in whispers, the two of them seemed to have reached some consensus and nodded at each other.Hang Fengnian showed a photo to Zhao You and asked, "Do you know this woman?"

Zhao You said: "Yan Mingming, Lao Zhou's wife, the CEO of Ximeihua, you showed me the news of her disappearance on the plane."

"Have you seen it?"

"No."

"Where were you and what did you do on August 2018, 8?"

Zhao You replied patiently: "I called the Black Cat moving company in the morning and discussed about moving in two days, then I spent the whole day tidying up the dormitory, baking bread in the dormitory at night, and preparing things for camping the next day. Qingshi." He sighed, "You must have checked my travel records, right? I really haven't been out of Qingshi, I haven't even been out of our dormitory complex..."

Hang Fengnian sighed, and became serious: "Xiao Zhao, you, Mr. Zhou, are suspected of murder, do you know?"

Gao Changqing added: "You have also read the news, and Xiaohang has also roughly talked to you, what do you think? Based on your experience as a criminal policeman, tell me, what do you think?"

Zhao You said awkwardly: "Me? I don't have any experience. I have only been a criminal policeman for a few years..." He scratched his head, "Then do you two have any ideas?"

Hang Fengnian said: "Around 8:10 noon on August 11, the clerk at the Provence-style seafood restaurant in the lakeside area of ​​Yancheng witnessed a quarrel between Yan Mingming and Zhou Sichang. After that, Yan Mingming took a taxi and left alone. Also left the restaurant after lunch.

"We found the driver who drove Yan Mingming that day. From the in-car video obtained by him, it can be seen that Yan Mingming got on the car at 11 o'clock and arrived at Times Garden Community at 11:45. They were all very depressed, crying with their heads down all the time.

"The community of Times Garden is all single-family villas. At 12:15, she walked into villa No. 6 in the community, which is her and Zhou Sichang's home. There is only one entrance and exit in the community, and there is no back door. You have to swipe the key card to enter and exit. , the owner applies for the door card by himself. Their system is to swipe the card, and you can see the appearance of the owner and which villa you live in. If it is a visitor, the guard will definitely call the owner to ask the identity of the visitor, and only after confirmation People will enter. There are also many surveillance cameras inside the community, and the security is very tight. We have checked the surveillance of the community, and none of the surveillance cameras captured Yan Mingming going out after returning home.

"As for you Mr. Zhou, at 10:2 pm on the 30th, Zhou Sichang drove home and parked in the garage. He should have entered the villa from the garage, and he hasn't been out since then. At 4 pm, Yan Mingming's friend Ge Junhua arrived During the interview, it was Zhou Sichang and the security guard who verified his identity and let him enter the community. Ge Junhua's car stopped at the door of their garage. Zhou Sichang went out from the garage to greet him. According to Ge Junhua's testimony, he was sent to the The fruit and champagne from his own winery were given to Yan Mingming. They attended an elite training class and became friends. His family also runs a hotel. He always wanted to poach Yan Mingming, so he took the opportunity to get close to her. He said, Zhou Sichang I never wanted him to enter the house, so I kept talking to him in the garage when I stopped him. Later, he helped move things, and then entered the living room of the villa. Zhou Sichang claimed that Yan Mingming was not at home. Ge Junhua said that he noticed that Zhou Sichang Chang sweated a lot, and he asked him if he was exercising at home.

"Because I didn't see Yan Mingming around, and Ge Junhua didn't know Zhou Sichang well, so he was embarrassed to stay for a long time, so he sat down in the living room and then left. According to the monitoring in the community, after Ge Junhua left, Zhou Sichang didn't He never left the villa. The next day, he came to our city bureau and surrendered, claiming that he might have killed his wife, but he couldn’t remember how to dispose of the dead body or how to throw it away. We found a syringe in his home , Insulin residues were found in the syringe, but neither Yan Mingming nor Zhou Sichang has diabetes, and you used to be a criminal police officer, so you know the consequences of overdose insulin injections for ordinary people, right?"

Zhao You nodded.Gao Changqing took up the conversation and said: "We also found a suicide note written by Zhou Sichang in his computer, but he himself claimed that he had no memory of everything and couldn't remember anything. A lot of empty wine bottles were indeed found in the barrel, and when he surrendered, he smelled very strongly of alcohol, and his blood alcohol content was very high."

Gao Changqing showed two photos: "We found blood stains in the bathtub of the master bedroom bathroom on the second floor of the villa, and there were also blood stains in the sewer pipes. After investigation, they all belonged to Yan Mingming. Zhou Sichang also lost a knife at home."

Hang Fengnian went on to say: "We have also searched the garden of their house, and found no limbs or remains of bones. Zhou Sichang's car was also thoroughly searched, and there was nothing found, and there was no sign of recent renovations in the house. In short, ...We couldn't find Yan Mingming's body."

Hang Fengnian's voice was very deep, and he looked at Zhao You: "Zhou Sichang came to the Public Security Bureau to surrender himself on August 8th, and today is August 11th, and we still haven't found Yan Mingming's body, you know what it means What are you wearing?"

Zhao You nodded and said, "Can I ask a question?"

Gao Changqing pouted, and Zhao You asked: "Yan Mingming has already become the CEO of Ximeihua, does he still need to go to the elite training class?"

Gao Changqing clicked his tongue, and replied angrily: "Does this have anything to do with the case? You don't care about this class, those people go to these for the purpose of socializing." Gao Changqing knocked on the table twice: " Relatives and friends around Yan Mingming also provided testimonies. She and Lao Zhou are old couples and young wives, and they have never had children. Recently, the two had a cold war. Yan Mingming has not lived at home for a while, and has already consulted a lawyer for divorce property distribution. Something happened," she knocked on the table again, "if they get divorced, Lao Zhou will have to move out of the big villa. He has retired a long time ago, and now Yan Mingming earns everything he eats and uses. They didn't sign a prenuptial agreement , once Yan Mingming dies, everything will belong to Lao Zhou."

Zhao Youdao: "So... Lao Zhou murdered his wife? Then he hid the body. Without the body, there would be no case, and he could inherit his wife's inheritance?"

Hang Fengnian crossed his arms, and Zhao You asked in a daze, "No, then why does he have to see me?"

"Yes, why do I have to see you?" Hang Fengnian also asked.

"I do not know."

"You really don't know?"

"you know?"

Someone knocked on the door outside, Hang Fengnian got up to open the door, he squeezed through the crack of the door, Zhao You couldn't see the person knocking on the door.No one in the room spoke for a while, only the momentum of the air conditioner remained the same.Gao Changqing looked at Zhao You silently.Her pupils were darker than the camera lenses.

About 3 minutes later, Hang Fengnian came back, he and Gao Changqing whispered a few words, Gao Changqing shook his head first, and said excitedly "No, no", Hang Fengnian pulled her arm, and said something, Gao Changqing focused Thinking, not saying a word.Hang Fengnian smiled at Zhao You at this moment, and Zhao You smiled back uncomfortably.Not long after, Gao Changqing seemed to have made up his mind, pulled Hang Fengnian and said: "You promise, you will bear this responsibility, do you know what the consequences will be?"

Hang Fengnian glanced at Zhao You, patted his chest: "I will bear this responsibility."

Zhao You covered his mouth, stretched his brows and eyes, and looked at himself through the camera, as if a big stone in his heart fell to the ground.

"Little Zhao." Hang Fengnian called Zhao You, turned off the camera, and walked towards Zhao You. He stepped on the pedal under the interrogation chair where Zhao You was sitting, opened the lock on the table, and said to Zhao You : "I'm really sorry, we are following the procedure and routine."

Zhao You nodded: "Understood, I understand." He rubbed his wrist and asked Hang Fengnian: "Today is the 14th, so shall we go directly to see Lao Zhou?"

Hang Fengnian patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry."

He led Zhao You out of the interrogation room, and there was no one in the corridor outside.Hang Fengnian returned Zhao You's mobile phone to him.Zhao You stuffed the phone into his pocket directly, and he glanced back at the interrogation room, and said, "Where is Team Gao?"

Hang Fengnian said: "It's getting late, you're tired all the way here, we applied for a one-day extension, and it's just been approved, how about this, I'll take you to the hotel for a rest today, and tomorrow morning we'll go see Lao Zhou."

Zhao You nodded in agreement, and looked out of the window at the end of the corridor, it was already dark, the lights in this corridor were bright, and the offices on both sides were shining through.There are interrogation rooms, conference rooms, and criminal investigation offices on both sides of this corridor.The footsteps of him and Hang Fengnian echoed in the corridor.

Zhao Youdao: "Shouldn't I be meeting Lao Zhou alone tomorrow?"

Hang Fengnian asked him: "Do you want to go alone?"

Zhao You immediately shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, I was very bad at interrogation when I was a criminal policeman, and now I haven't done it for several months, and my mouth is rough." He also said: "And Lao Zhou It's my teacher, I guess... I have a natural fear of teachers..."

Suddenly, Zhao You's mobile phone's WeChat notification tone rang again, two times in succession, and after a short pause, it sounded again.Hang Fengnian asked him, "Who is looking for you?"

Zhao You took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was still a message from the takeaway official account. Two reminded him that the gift certificate in the bound takeaway account was about to expire, and one reminded him that today's gift certificate distribution activity has ended.Hang Fengnian glanced at him and said, "That won't work, Lao Zhou said he wants to talk to you, so you have to talk."

"Are you talking hard?"

"Just find something to talk to him about, to reminisce about the old days. I guess he just said casually when he said he wanted to find you, just to delay the time." Hang Fengnian came up with an idea with a smile.

Zhao You was helpless: "Then I... well, this is really rushing the ducks to the shelves."

The energy-saving lamps in the corridor flickered twice, as if he was also helpless.

The author says:

Well!Our old friend Xiao Zhao is back! :)