Madness of the Heart

Hexiang County, Wancui Village.

In autumn, the air is filled with the strong fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus and the smell of smoke from burning coal.

"The Wu family, they moved away a long time ago." The village cadre stood in front of a yard that was no longer inhabited, and pointed in, "This is where they used to live."

Xu Chun asked: "Move away? When?"

The village cadre said: "At the beginning of this year, let's celebrate the Spring Festival."

There are three members of Wu Tong's family, and Wu Tong is the only one living in Dongye City. Since her parents are not in Wancui Village, where are they going?

And the whole family moved out during the Spring Festival, which is too weird.

Xu Chun immediately asked, "Do you know why the Wu family moved away?"

"I know, we are always envious!" The village cadre laughed and puffed, "They have a relative who works as a boss in a big city, and they say they are asked to help them work. Hey, the city is good, one month You can earn thousands of dollars easily! Before they leave, they even treated us to a dinner!"

Work for relatives in the city?wrong!

Xu Chun reacted quickly——Wu Tong did ask his distant relative Liang Lu to help solve the work in Dongye City, but Liang Lu is not a big boss, so it is impossible to ask the whole Wu family to work for him, and Wu Tong's parents Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia are not with Wu Tong either.

There is only one possibility, something happened to the Wu family.

Xu Chun hurriedly asked the village cadres to call the village chief, and asked the team members to go door-to-door to inquire about the situation of Wu's family, and learned an amazing fact-Wu Tong who is now in Dongye City is not the real Wu Tong, but the real Wu Tong. Wu Tong died when he was seven years old.

The Wu family has been farmers for generations. Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia had no children when they were young, and they did not give birth to Wu Tong—the real Wu Tong until they were almost 40 years old.

Wu Tong was born prematurely, and his mother was an advanced mother, so Wu Tong was weak and sickly from birth.

Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia closely followed the child. When Wu Tong was four years old, they listened to the fortune-teller and stole a girl of the same age back with the purpose of "extending" Wu Tong's life.

The so-called "continuation of life" is to raise the girl as a livestock, also named Wu Tong, as the shadow of the real Wu Tong. Once Wu Tong suffers from any illness, Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia will ask a fortune teller to "do the trick" The pain was transferred to the shadow.

To accept the shadow of illness must be painful, and only when the shadow is painful can the pain be transferred successfully.

When "practicing", the fortune teller often hangs the girl upside down, pricks with needles, whips, and even cuts the girl with a knife.

The more the girl cried, the more the fortune-teller told Wu and Wang, "The evil spirit has left Wu Tong and was absorbed by the shadow."

This matter is not a secret in the village, and no one even thinks that the Wu family's behavior of stealing children is a crime.

The girl was put on a chain and tied up in the yard of Wu's house, living a life no different from that of a dog.

The fortune teller's "life extension" method failed to save Wu Tong's life in the end. After Wu Tong died of illness, the girl became the only child in Wu's family.

According to the fortune teller, the girl already has a ray of Wu Tong's soul, and the Wu family had better keep raising the girl and treat her as Wu Tong.

Under the great pain of bereavement, Wu Shoulian accepted the advice of the fortune teller, untied the chains on the girl's hands and feet, and gave the girl a new name——Wu Tong.

In Wancui Village many years ago, the household registration management was quite backward. The girl was originally from a black household, and after inheriting Wu Tong's name, she also inherited Wu Tong's identity.

She is Wu Tong, and Wu Tong is her.

Xu Chun immediately informed the Hexiang County Public Security Bureau of the situation to be investigated, and then communicated with Mingshu.

"The Wu family has no relatives in the city who can turn to. What the people in the village heard must be lies." Mingshu said: "Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia left Wancui Village for no reason, and Wu Tong lives alone now. The biggest possibility is that ——Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia never left Wancui Village, they were already dead.”

Xu Chun said: "I think so too. We found several rusty chains in Wu's house, which should be the chains that locked Wu Tong back then. She was abused since she was four years old, and was forced to become a dead woman when she was seven years old. The substitute of the person. If I were her, I don't know how deep my hatred for the Wu family will be."

Ming Shu leaned against the wall and paused for a few seconds, "I don't know how twisted my mind is."

"Then I will investigate the case here with the Hexiang County Public Security Bureau for the time being." Xu Chun said, "I will report to you as soon as there is any progress."

Mingshu said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Wu Tong was sitting in the interrogation room, humming a song softly. She did have a sweet face. When she tilted her head to look at people, it was always easy for soft-hearted people to pity her.

Ming Shu said: "Sha Chun and Wu Tong are very similar, aren't they?"

The singing stopped abruptly, and Wu Tong stood still immediately, looking at Mingshu like a delicate white porcelain doll.

When Mingshu saw Wu Tong before, he thought Wu Tong looked like something, but he couldn't think of an appropriate description.

After learning about what happened in Wu's house many years ago, a noun suddenly appeared in his mind.

dummy.

Wu Tong is like a dummy, with a name and identity, but no soul of his own.

Wu Tong's big eyes were shining, and he repeated in a very strange tone, "Wu...Tong?"

Mingshu saw doubts in Wu Tong's eyes, and this doubt was different from her innocent and romantic disguise, it turned out to be real.

"I am Wu Tong." She said.

"Then who are Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia?" Mingshu asked.

Hearing these two names, Wu Tong's expression immediately became disgusted and fierce, "They are my parents."

Mingshu asked, "Where are they now?"

Wu Tong lowered his head, "Of course it's in my hometown."

"But there is no one in the house in your hometown."

"..."

After a moment of silence, Mingshu said: "This Spring Festival, the Wu family told the neighbors that they would come to the city to join their relatives. Why did you come alone, where are your parents?"

"They..." Wu Tong said anxiously, "I don't know."

Mingshu said: "No, you know. No one knows the whereabouts of your parents except you."

Wu Tong raised his chest fiercely, and the ferocity on his face turned ferocious, "What exactly do you want to ask?"

Mingshu stared at Wu Tong solemnly, and spoke loudly, "I ask you if you killed Wu Shoulian, Wang Aixia, and Sha Chun, who is similar to the real Wu Tong!"

Wu Tong opened his mouth half-opened, and after half a minute he laughed strangely, "I don't have one. I'm Wu Tong. I have an ID card. Do you want to see it?"

Mingshu suddenly asked: "If I can find your biological parents, do you want to meet them?"

Wu Tong's smile froze, her delicate face was trembling slightly, "I..."

"You can think about it again." Mingshu got up and put the seat back, "Every case I want to investigate will eventually come to light."

There is no doubt that Wu Tong is the murderer, but the chain of evidence is still incomplete, and the investigation must continue.

Mingshu rushed to Wu Tong's residence again, and once again noticed the rectangular carpet at the door of the bedroom.

"The clothes Wu Tong wore when committing crimes are the most important, and there must be key information on them. Wu Tong disposed of them all, which is very troublesome." Xiao Man said, "But this is actually considered indirect evidence."

Mingshu squatted down, put on gloves, asked Xiao Man for a large evidence bag, and put the carpet in it.

Wu Tong, Meng Xue, and Li Tianyue didn't have the habit of going home to change their shoes. The living room is equivalent to a public area, and their slippers are all in their bedrooms.

"Take this carpet back for detailed inspection." Mingshu said: "Although Wu Tong has disposed of the clothes she wore when she committed the crime, she must have stepped on this carpet when she came back from the scene. The carpet and clothes were not removed. It was her negligence to dispose of them together."

Xiao Man immediately understood, "The dirt attached to her shoes will fall on the carpet!"

Mingshu rushed to the Nancheng Sub-bureau without stopping, and asked to adjust the road monitoring in the early morning of August 8th.

According to Li Tianyue, Wu Tong returned home on the morning of the 24th.That is to say, after Wu Tong killed and buried Sha Chun, he probably hid in the Performing Arts Group until dawn, and then returned to Dongcheng District by bus or taxi.

Every traffic station is monitored, and there is a high probability that Wu Tong will not choose the bus.Then in the early morning, every taxi and private car passing by Nanye Avenue where the performing arts group is located may carry Wu Tong.

The investigation of this clue required a lot of manpower, and the Nancheng Sub-bureau offered to cooperate. The reason is obvious without even thinking about it-Xiao Yu'an left Chu Can's trouble in the serious case team, and directly reduced the burden on the Nancheng Sub-bureau.

On the other hand, the Public Security Bureau of Hexiang County began to investigate Wancui Village.

Xu Chun asked many villagers to confirm that the Wu family held the running water mat on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and when the running water mat was held, Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia were still alive.

"Actually, during the Spring Festival, I didn't seem to see Wu Shoulian and his wife at all." Ou Chunxiang, who lived near Wu's house, said, "Wu Tong came to my house and said that we were going to move, and invited us to her house for dinner."

"On the day of the Wu family's treat, you didn't actually see Wu Shoulian and his wife?" Xu Chun asked.

"I..." Ou Chunxiang scratched his head, "I can't remember, I should have seen it. They are a treat at home, of course they are at home."

Many villagers gave similar answers to Ou Chunxiang's.

Xu Chun immediately thought of a possibility - Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia had already been killed when Wu's family held a banquet.Wu Tong spread the news that his family was going to the city, and even invited people to eat at home, just to create the illusion that Wu and Wang are still alive.

The Spring Festival is a very convenient time for doing things. Every family has their own affairs to be busy with. Set up a table with flowing water, and the east eats and the west eats. "Drink with Uncle Wang and Uncle Li" perfunctory.

"I also looked for Aixia that day. After all, I was an old friend for many years, but I really didn't see anyone." Villager Chen Qicui said with a sad face.

Xu Chun asked: "Then why do you think that Wang Aixia was at home on the day of the Wu family's treat?"

"I..." Chen Qicui thought for a long time, and finally said: "I heard Wu Tong call her mother."

Xu Chun finally figured out the key point.

People are extremely susceptible to external influences and easily confused by false appearances.

Wu Tong said that he would go to the city with his parents to seek refuge with wealthy relatives, and the villagers believed them. Afterwards, they went to Wu Tong's house for a banquet. Is the stew ready?" and "Dad, the wine is gone", which can give a hint to the people present-Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia are both there.

This is obviously a very risky method, but Wu Tong succeeded.After half a year, no one in Wancui Village knew that Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia had actually died long ago.

The Hexiang County Public Security Bureau was very efficient. On the same day, traces of the murder case were found in Wu’s house—there were many knife marks on the floor of the living room, a small amount of visible blood in the gaps, and almost the entire floor was exposed to the luminol reagent. There is a reaction.

Captain Liu, who was in charge of investigating the case, said to Xu Chun: "This is very likely the scene of the crime."

"There are so many slashing marks, it should be dismembered." Xu Chun recalled Wu Tong's innocent face and found it incredible, but when he thought about everything Wu Tong experienced in his childhood, he felt that it was not unexplainable.

Wu Tong only looks innocent, but he has no humanity at all in his heart.

It is precisely because there is no humanity, only an empty shell is left, so when she pretends to be a silly, white and sweet girl, she pretends to be so similar and deceives everyone.

At night, police dogs found a pile of corpses buried in a pit in the northwest corner of Wancui Village.

The body parts have been severely decomposed, but two complete bodies can be pieced together.

However, the forensic doctor said that judging from the decay of the legs, the murderer scraped off part of the meat from the legs when dismembering the body.

It is not easy to identify the specific cause of death of the dismembered and severely decomposed corpses. The forensic doctor can only make a preliminary judgment from the damage to the neck bones of the deceased. They are likely to be strangled to death.

Xu Chun couldn't figure it out, strangling is not a simple matter, Wu Tong wants to kill Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia, there are many choices, why strangle?

The cause of Sha Chun's death was also mechanical asphyxia caused by strangulation.

What is the reason why Wu Tong is obsessed with strangulation?

"Didn't you find the iron chain that bound Wu Tong in the Wu family's yard?" Ming Shu closed his eyes and thought for a while after listening to Xu Chun's report, "The real Wu Tong has been dead for so many years, Wu Tong also didn’t need to wear iron chains for a long time. Why did the iron chains stay in Wu’s house? Neither Wu Shoulian nor Wang Aixia had any reason to keep the iron chains.”

"Wu Tong?" Xu Chun said, "Wu Tong left the chain on purpose?"

"It's hard for outsiders to imagine the pain Wu Tong suffered in her childhood. She was chained and whipped. The chains and whips are her horrible memories." Mingshu said: "It's also her hatred. Memory. She left the iron chain behind, perhaps to remind herself not to forget the hatred, not to forget the sins she suffered before, and one day, she will take revenge."

"I understand." Xu Chun smoked, his eyes narrowed in the smoke, "Wu Shoulian and his wife imprisoned her with iron chains, and she will use similar strips to kill them."

Mingshu said: "This can also explain why Sha Chun died of strangulation."

Xu Chun sighed for a long time, "How did your investigation go, I'll be right back."

Mingshu is still at the Nancheng Branch, "Don't worry, the chain of evidence will be completed soon."

Xiao Man's observation ability is not as good as Ming Shu's, but he is technically professional. After extraction and identification, Trace Inspection produced a key identification report - the soil on the carpet at the door of Wu Tong's bedroom, and Sha Chun's corpse. The soil of the site is consistent.

Shortly after the appraisal report was released, the Nancheng District Bureau found a BYD owner named "Yang Qiuyong" after intensive investigation.

Yang Qiuyong has been doing "black car" business in Nancheng District all year round. The inside of the car has been refitted to look like an ordinary taxi, with protective fences and surveillance cameras.

The camera recorded the situation when Wu Tong got on and off the car—at 8:24 in the morning on August 5th, Wu Tong, wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue jeans, and carrying a backpack, got into Yang Qiuyong's car at a dead corner of the road surveillance. On the right side of the rear seat. At 49:6, Wu Tong got off at Xingzhao Road, Dongcheng District, paid cash and left.

Xingzhao Road was four kilometers away from Wu Tong's residence, so it was difficult for the police to find Xingzhao Road.

Mingshu came to Wu Tong again.

After Wu Tong's feigned innocence faded away, she looked even more beautiful.But that beauty was lifeless, empty and pale.

"The police in Hexiang County have found your parents..." Ming Shu paused, then changed his words: "We have found the bodies of Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia, and we have confirmed that Wu's family is the first scene."

Wu Tong blinked, but did not speak.

"Their cause of death was mechanical suffocation. You used the chains they locked you to complete your revenge." Mingshu's tone was gentle, unlike a murderer who was carrying three lives on his back, "Wu Tong, are you satisfied?" Yet?"

Wu Tong was still silent.

Mingshu looked at her for a while, "No, you didn't."

Wu Tong's expression finally changed slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but he didn't open his mouth immediately.

"How can you be satisfied?" Mingshu said, "Before taking revenge on the person who caused your bad luck in this life."

Wu Tong's slender neck contracted slightly.

"You stayed with your family well, but you were suddenly stolen by someone. Before you were seven years old, you suffered all kinds of inhuman torture. After seven years old, although life was better, the real you has died. You used to be for that person The shadow of 'continuing life' will be that person's substitute in the future." Ming Shu said: "In your heart, the most hateful thing is not the fortune teller, nor Wu Shoulian, Wang Aixia, but the real Wu Tong, right?"

Wu Tong took a deep breath, and then began to tremble.

Mingshu continued: "But she is already dead, and you have no way to avenge her. You killed Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia during the Spring Festival this year. You thought you could vent your anger and start a new life in a new place. You arranged it well It's so perfect that no one in your hometown knows that Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia are dead. But when you really start a new life, you realize that you can't let go. If you don't kill the real Wu Tong with your own hands, you can't leave come out."

Wu Tong lowered his head, pursed his lips, and spoke vaguely.

"You gained pleasure in the process of dismembering Wu and Wang, so you killed chickens many times, as well as stray dogs near your residence." Mingshu said: "They are all substitutes for the real Wu Tong. But chopping The pleasure of killing small animals is far inferior to that of humans, so when you discover the secret of Sha Chun and Yu Xiaocheng, Sha Chun becomes your substitute."

At this moment, Wu Tong finally said, "Yes, I was the one who killed Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia, and I was the one who strangled Sha Chun."

After saying this, Wu Tong suddenly fell silent.

Mingshu waited for her next words.

For a long time, Wu Tong's eyebrows fluttered undetectably, and there was a strange light in his eyes, "You said you would help me find my parents. I plead guilty, and I will explain everything. You can really let me see them before I die. One side?"