Don't move the old man's bounty

"In the process of investigating the case of dumping corpses in Lanjiang, we arrested Wang Shuncai, a suspect who attempted to murder the investigators. He claimed to have witnessed the whole process of the murder of the victim, Shota Higashino, and was coerced, so he had no choice but to kill the police to silence him. According to his confession, he once caused trouble with the villagers in his hometown, accidentally killed someone, and had to leave because he was afraid of being sued for his life, but in fact we did not find out his criminal record, because the There were a large number of victims, and the victims died of a heart attack. With the efforts of the defense lawyers, only the three people who took the lead in the trouble were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to five years for the crime of negligent death, and you just mentioned Party A Zhang Huaiyou in the case was one of the people sentenced at that time."

Jiang Juan folded his hands on his lap, sitting upright but with a face full of alienation. He never looked at Li Heng directly, and seemed not interested in his reaction. He didn't care at all about the other party's desire to win an explanation for himself. Stop talking.

He continued: "I analyze the reasons why Wang Shuncai became a scapegoat for three reasons. First, he is an unemployed vagrant who has lived near the basement of the crime scene for a long time. He has a certain understanding of the scene and the surrounding terrain and the layout of the monitoring system. He has a good chance of committing crimes." It is suitable to take the blame. Secondly, he often steals the inventory of the property and sells it. He knows the quantity and location of lime, sand and other materials stored in the basement. The third point is that Wang Shuncai was born as a cement worker. , Anyone who has seen the situation at the scene knows that the murderer must have a good skill in wiping, and anyone will suspect that Wang Shun is the murderer who murdered and threw away the corpse."

Li Heng's smile was a little stiff, "Is it really okay for you to disclose the details of these cases to me, an outsider?"

"If I don't tell you, don't you know? After all, I'm not a very expressive person. I've spent time and effort telling you so much, but it's actually just to verify the correctness of the reasoning."

"Okay." Li Heng hooked the corner of his mouth again, playing with the fruit knife he had just peeled the orange in his hand, the blade was dancing between his fingers, the movement was very skillful, "I was also in charge of criminal cases in the early years, if my It’s best if analytics can help you.”

"Oh? Really, does Li Lu think that Wang Shun is the murderer who killed Shota Higashino?"

"It's very likely. From your narration just now, we can know that he was threatened by others because he was afraid of the exposure of the suspected murder, so he wanted to kill you as a last resort. However, not many people know about this old incident. He has been away from home for many years. , It seems that he has lost contact with his former relatives and friends. It is not easy to find someone who knows his past and recent situation in the big Yanxi. Instead of suspecting anyone else, I think it is more likely that he will direct and act on his own. "Li Heng analyzed.

"Indeed." Jiang Juan nodded, looked up at Li Heng, his eyes, which were as deep as still water, suddenly rippled, and the rippling smile made Li Heng feel a little uneasy, "But Li Lu, I only talked about him He once caused trouble and killed people, and he claimed to have been coerced in this case, but he did not mention the necessary connection between the two incidents, how do you know that someone threatened him with the background of his past crimes?"

Li Heng paused in the movement of playing with the fruit knife, lost his mind for a moment, did not grasp the strength of his hands, and a bloodstain appeared on his index finger.

Jiang Juan took out a tissue and handed it over. He didn't care about his injury, didn't persuade him to put down the knife, and seeing that he couldn't find a reasonable explanation for a while, he didn't force him to give an explanation.

This kind of indifferent, tepid reaction is more suffocating than emotionally intense questioning. It is like a long Lingchi, extending the painful process infinitely. The cruelty is that you will never know where the last knife is. will fall.

"I don't agree with your statement. The reason is very simple, and it came to my mind unintentionally—the police handling the case told me that Wang Shuncai lived in the basement of Fengyeyuan Community for a long time, and they found traces of Wang Shuncai's residence in one of them. His daily necessities are still piled there without time to clean up, which is why I became suspicious. Generally speaking, prisoners should not kill people at their own doorsteps, and it is easy to make people suspect that they do not say anything, and they are easy to dirty themselves For Wang Shuncai, that basement is the only place he can survive this cold winter, even if he really killed someone, he shouldn’t be there, or in other words, he shouldn’t leave the body there.”

Li Heng licked the blood on his fingers and spit bloody saliva.The blood didn't stop for a long time, so he had to find a band-aid from the drawer under the table and wrap it up, but after a while, the band-aid was soaked in blood.

Jiang Juan took his hand and pressed the blood vessel above the wound, "Where is the medicine box?"

Li Heng pointed to the bedroom behind him, "In the closet, on the second floor."

Jiang Juan came back with the medicine box and dug out the bottles and jars inside. There were a lot of expired medicines in a mess, but there were no medicines that could be used for disinfection.

Jiang Juan had no choice but to light a cigarette on the spot, smoked it in two or three puffs, and applied the ash on Li Heng's wound, and sure enough, the bleeding stopped within half a minute.

"It should be disinfected later, this can only be used as an emergency temporary treatment, in case of infection, it will be serious."

"Officer Jiang, you seem quite skilled, do you often get hurt?"

Jiang Juan shook the remaining cigarette ash into the ashtray, hesitated and said, "Even the best panacea can only heal skin and flesh wounds, some wounds are in the blood vessels and bone marrow, which can be felt but not touched. There is nothing to heal." What's the use of instinct?"

He didn't wait for Li Heng to continue to change the topic, and returned to the breaking point just now, "I personally prefer that Wang Shuncai is not the murderer, but it is not a coincidence that he was involved in this case, so the people behind the scenes must know him In the past, the most likely ones are the villagers of Zhongling Village who had trouble with him back then."

"Then how did you suspect Zhang Huaiyou?"

"I didn't doubt Zhang Huaiyou, what I doubted was—you."

As if hearing some joke, Li Heng stared at Jiang Juan and smiled for a while, then shook his head helplessly, "Officer Jiang, your reasoning is mixed with too much of your own subjective consciousness, there is a difference between real-life cases and TV dramas, you must There is enough strong evidence to crucify a crime. Even in court, you can’t just rely on your mouth to make random accusations, can you? If the defender of the other party happens to be a lawyer with a good tongue and a good mind, the evidence may even make people escape. crime, let alone a case where the conclusion is based on your conjectures?"

"Li Lu," Jiang Juan seemed not to understand the sarcasm in his words, "What did you promise Zhang Huaiyou to betray the Jiang family?"

"……what?"

"Honestly speaking, I'm not interested in trivial neighborhood trifles, but the civil disputes in Zhongling Village are really interesting. Zhang Huaiyou suddenly seized the public land near the neighbor's house on a whim, and built a house arbitrarily for himself. There are so many unclaimed open spaces in the whole village, why did he choose there? Is it because the pigsty next to the neighbor’s house will have fresher air?”

Li Heng laughed loudly, "Officer Jiang, you are so interesting. I also asked Zhang Huaiyou himself this question. He said that although there are a lot of open spaces in the village, most of them are backed by mountains. The terrain is not good, so it is impossible to build a house. On the other hand, Feng Shui is not suitable for Yang Zhai. And the open space he occupies is remote, and no one pays attention to it on weekdays, so he quietly builds a house, and the neighbors gossip, and small favors can be passed away. Once the demolition money is obtained, others can't do anything to him even if they remember it."

"So... Li Lu, is this the first lie you've told me?" Jiang Juan raised his bony hand and looked at it, staring at the trace of blood that was not wiped off between the nails , "Can't count on one hand?"

"……What's the meaning?"

"If Zhang Huaiyou was really a native villager, he would definitely not build a house in that vacant land, unless someone ordered him to do so, and the benefits were enough for him to overcome his fear of strange powers and gods. There is a saying It’s a good saying, money can make ghosts turn the millstone, and even gods and ghosts are afraid of evil people.”

The smile in Li Heng's eyes slowly faded, and even though the corners of his mouth were still raised, his momentum changed subtly, "Officer Jiang, I can't understand what you're saying anymore."

Jiang Juan clenched his fists and shrank his hands, and tapped his fingertips rhythmically on the table, "Okay, then I'll explain it to you from the beginning. You met the client Zhang Huaiyou in the case of the sudden death of the developer caused by a mass disturbance and worked for you. He defended, and under your tireless investigation, Zhang Huaiyou was sentenced to three years in prison for minor circumstances, while the other two were sentenced to a few more years in prison. There is no need to refute me on this point. Before the police investigation has progressed, I have verified it through other channels, and it is said that you did not even charge him for his services at that time, Zhang Huaiyou is grateful to you, and has always wanted to repay your kindness."

The "channel" in his mouth naturally refers to a certain legal pioneer surnamed Song.

At this time, in a mansion in the center of Yanxi City, Song Shensi, who had no idea that the information he got with a phone call was enough to overturn the whole case, had an itchy nose, sneezed, and covered him with the same blanket. The person said: "Teacher, when you think about it, you scold and mutter, someone is thinking about me."

Shen Jinsu put down the file and took off his glasses, pinched his chin and kissed him, "Then I'd like to see, who is the child who dares to miss my family so desperately."

Jiang Juan came back to his senses and continued: "Eight years ago, when you switched from criminal to economic, it is said that you took over the case right after graduation. You felt that the future was hopeless, so you changed directions. You exempt Zhang Huaiyou from the case." The fee may be just an accident, but I didn't expect this relationship to help you again after many years, because Jiang Yi, who is in the same law firm as you, and whom you booked as the dead ghost, is also a villager in Zhongling Village."

Now Li Heng couldn't laugh anymore, even the last flickering light in his eyes went out, squinting at Jiang Juan as if he was examining a prisoner who was about to be sentenced to death.

But Jiang Juan seemed unaware, "At first, I thought that people like Jiang Yi and her parents who were too feudal-minded should be in the minority. It shouldn't be such a coincidence. Only when I saw the file did I realize that it was really their family. You conspired to let Zhang Huaiyou occupy that piece of land and force Jiang Yi to return to his hometown to deal with these civil disputes, but no one has ever thought about why the Jiang family dared not enclose that piece of land for themselves. This is what you just said The reason for claiming that Zhang Huaiyou wanted to occupy a piece of land with good geomantic omens was to tear down Qi Yang’s house, because that piece of open land was actually a geomantic omen.”

Li Heng's eyelids twitched, and his eyelashes trembled, as if suppressing his anger, "You guessed that too?"

"No, the evidence is solid, because I used to be from Zhongling Village, Su'an County, and I know better than anyone that the 'public land' is not an open space, but my family's ancestral grave."

Li Heng's unbelievable expression at this moment can be described as wonderful.

Jiang Juan continued: "The Jiang family didn't allow Zhang Huaiyou to occupy the land because of two reasons. It was only one percent of them who didn't want Zhang Huaiyou to take advantage of it, and the remaining 90.00%... was because my brother had frightened them. It is said that the ancestors cursed that piece of ground, and anyone who broke ground there would kill the Jiang family. Even after I moved the ancestral grave, the Jiang family still did not dare to disturb it, and volunteered to be my family's grave keeper for more than [-] years. You How dare they, who are so superstitious, let Zhang Huaiyou mess around in that land?"

Li Heng got up suddenly, interrupting Jiang Juan's words, Gu Zi walked to the French window, looked at the already dark sky outside the window, and slowly drew the heavy curtains, making the only light in the room suddenly disappear, and suddenly plunged into darkness .

He approached Jiang Juan with heavy steps, and his voice sank without concealment, with deep meaning: "Officer Jiang, does anyone know that you are here today?"

"No, when I was visiting a related person, there happened to be a murder at his house. Everyone in the team was busy investigating the scene, and no one cared where I was going when I left early."

"Then do you feel that your situation is very dangerous?"

The light came on suddenly, Jiang Juan was still calm, looking at the inconspicuous wet mark on the leather sofa, rubbed it with his fingertips, and said with a chuckle, "No." After that, he showed the glaring blood on his hand To the other party, "I think it may be you who are in danger."