Madness of the Heart

Qin Xiong and Huang Hui bought Qin Ke a 150-square-meter house with four bedrooms and two living rooms. For a young single woman, this is already a very spacious residence.

The trace inspector had done an indoor survey, and the footprints in the house were relatively simple, only the footprints of Huang Hui and Yu Xiaohai, and a group of unfamiliar footprints.The strange footprints came from Sister Tao, a part-time worker. The work records and the monitoring in the building showed that she had only gone to Qin Ke's house to do a big cleaning the day before the incident.

"It is said to be a house for my daughter, but this house shows Qinxiong Huanghui's desire to control everywhere." Mingshu wore gloves and shoe covers, carefully observing each room, "The real estate certificate of this house says Huanghui , not Qin Ke. However, the house was purchased five years ago, and Qin Ke was only 16 years old five years ago. It is understandable that he is too young. But such a decoration..."

Just looking at the decoration, it is absolutely impossible to tell that this is the residence of a girl in her twenties.

From the living room to the bedroom, to the study room, to the kitchen and bathroom, it is full of the gorgeous and grand style that some middle-aged and elderly people love. The colors are chaotic and neither Chinese nor foreign. At first glance, it looks like a newly built wedding room in the urban-rural fringe.

"Qin Ke is 21 years old now, already an independent age, but he depends on his parents for everything, and even where he lives, he can't choose the style he likes." Xiao Yu'an said: "Qin Ke has shown in these years There are traces of the 'bastard'."

The TV in the living room was covered with a festive red decorative cloth, the remote control was thrown in the back of the coffee table drawer, and the arty wooden tea set on the coffee table was neatly arranged, with a thin layer of dust on it.

Mingshu said: "It seems that Qin Ke rarely stays in the living room."

"Actually, she doesn't spend much time at home." Xiao Yu'an picked up the family portrait that was fastened to the speaker in the living room, "From the monitoring provided by the property management, we can see her daily schedule—going home at two or three in the morning, and returning home at nine in the morning." Leave at [-]:[-], it's like a hotel where she stayed."

"For a person without a job, Qin Kezhai really spends too little time at home." Ming Shu walked up to Xiao Yu'an, "This photo..."

"It was taken a long time ago. Both Qin Ke and Qin Xu were still children." Xiao Yuan turned the photo frame around, "Imitation gold-plated carvings, crudely made, probably bought by Huang Hui and forced to put it here."

"The photo should have been put in by Huang Hui, to create an illusion of family happiness in the new house." Ming Shu said, "Qin can't disobey his strong mother, so he usually keeps the photo frame closed."

Xiao Yu'an nodded, "Look around, I just walked around, the only living room in the four bedrooms and two halls is the master bedroom and the bathroom that comes with the master bedroom. Although the daily utensils and cooking seasonings in the kitchen are complete, there are almost no Used it."

"Then if Qin Ke has something hidden, there is a high probability that it is in the master bedroom." Mingshu sealed the laptop on the master bedroom table into an evidence bag, and began to rummage through the cabinets and drawers.

Before this, Zhou Yuan had already checked Qin Ke's mobile phone, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy about the online traces.Mobile phones are more convenient than computers. If there is no need for office work, young people nowadays use mobile phones more and ignore computers.Generally speaking, mining a person's mobile phone information is easier to find valuable things than checking his computer.

But Mingshu didn't intend to let Qin Ke's computer go.

"It's all big-name cosmetics and brand-name clothing." Xiao Yu'an said, "Qin Ke's money is all spent on finding 'Cowherd' and dressing himself up."

Mingshu looked at the overcrowded clothes in the cabinet, and took out one of them, "Isn't Qin Ke too careless about the clothes she bought herself? With Qin Ke's consumption level, she should have A cloakroom. Even though this is Huang Hui's house, Huang Hui has the final say on how to decorate it. It is impossible to have a separate cloakroom for her, but there are spare cabinets in other rooms. If she cherishes these clothes, she should sort them into categories and keep them tidy. Hang up."

Xiao Yuan said, "Just like you."

Mingshu's own house is relatively small and there is no separate cloakroom, but he likes to dress up and has a lot of clothes, but no matter how many clothes he has, he tidies them up neatly, and he will never put them in the closet and leave them alone.And Xiao Yu'an's house was very big, and a room was specially set aside for Mingshu's clothes.Mingshu sometimes rests, and can spend a day alone in the cloakroom with the music on, fiddling with those clothes and various shoes.

"That's right." Ming Shu shook the dress on his hands, "This dress costs at least [-] yuan. Qin Ke not only didn't hang it up, but even stuffed it under the cabinet."

As he said that, Mingshu pulled out another skirt, "This one is exactly the same as the one just now, but the size is different."

"Qin Ke bought two identical dresses, the difference lies in the size." Xiao Yuan said: "If you feel that the size is wrong after you buy it, the normal way is to exchange it with the merchant, but Qin Ke didn't exchange it, but bought a new one. .Maybe she bought a new pair not because of the wrong size, but because she wanted to buy it. It gives me the feeling that she didn't buy it because she likes these clothes, but because she wants to squander her parents' money."

Mingshu nodded, "I feel the same way. Qin Ke has no plans for her life. Qin Xu said she was stupid and was full of things between men and women. It is true that she has been taking care of men since high school, and with women she knows well. However, she never cherishes changing men like changing clothes. Yu Xiaohai is just one she adopted recently and is not special. If all her behaviors can be attributed to one root, it is actually It's—she's taking revenge on her parents."

"I hate it to the point where I don't hesitate to destroy myself." Xiao Yu'an folded her arms, "In her eyes, her parents may be heinous villains."

After searching the entire master bedroom, nothing related to Qin Ying was found.

Mingshu went to the study and another bedroom to check, but Xiao Yuan returned to the living room and stood in front of the buttoned photo frame.

"Ju Xiao?" Ming Shu came out from the room, just in time to see Xiao Yu'an unpacking the photo frame.

The workmanship of the photo frame was not good, once it was removed, the bracket fell apart, and the family portrait fell out of it, and a piece of paper floated down with it.

Mingshu picked it up, his eyes changed, "This is..."

It was an old yellowed photo the size of a baby's palm. In the photo was a very happy smiling boy, fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, and his clothes were very characteristic of the times.

The photo is incomplete and the edges are torn.Even this remaining piece has a crack in the middle and many creases.The front and back of the photo are pasted with scotch tape. The tape is old and should have been pasted a few years ago.

Without the two pieces of tape, the front and back, the picture would have spread from the boy's face.

"This person is Qin Ying?" Ming Shu looked up at Xiao Yu'an.

There is no evidence to prove that this person is Qin Ying, but he has a strong feeling that this person cannot be someone else.

"Take it to Longcheng Road, and ask those who have an impression of Qin Ying." Xiao Yuan put the two photos together with the photo frame into the evidence bag, "Huang Hui bought the photo frame, and Huang Hui also put the family photo. But this is Qin Ke's residence, and Qin Ke can put another photo in there at any time."

"Why did Huang Hui put this boy's photo in the photo frame?" Mingshu's tone quickened, "There is no reason at all. But Qin Ke has it. She knows that this person is Qin Ying, her uncle, and she put Qin Ying's Putting the photo in the Qin family's family portrait is to secretly express her own attitude."

Xiao Yu'an patted Ming Shu's waist, "The truth is probably what you deduced. But Captain Ming, are you too excited?"

Mingshu was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that he was indeed not rigorous enough just now.

If it was not Xiao Yu'an who was staying here with him at this time, but Fang Yuanhang, Yi Fei, Xu Chun, or anyone from the serious crime team, he would not have said what he just said.

He is the backbone of the crime team, anyone can get excited, but he can't.He has to be in a calm state at all times, pull back the overly excited players—such as Fang Yuanhang—, analyze all possibilities with a clear mind, and command his players from a high altitude.

This is actually a tiring job.

Because no matter how calm he is, he is still a man of flesh and blood.As a human being, we must have emotions.

Knowing that Xiao Yu'an was by his side, he took a rare slack and subconsciously understood that he now had support, even if he was impulsive and made some small mistakes, Xiao Yu'an would pull him back in time.

Xiao Yu'an really pulled it off.

Ming Shu took a long breath and said with a smile: "Now that I know my situation, I'll check it out!"

Section [-] of Longcheng Road.

In the evening, it’s time for the restaurants on the streets and alleys to open their doors to welcome customers again.

At this time in the past, the plastic benches outside "Cheng Jianghu" were already full of guests with equal signs.But today, although the store is still full of customers, the number of customers waiting outside has decreased significantly. Some customers looked outside the store and learned that they would have to wait for at least half an hour. After a moment of hesitation, almost all chose to leave.

The owner of "Baby Shrimp" and his family were massacred, leaving only one young son. As soon as the news spread on Longcheng Road, even the business of "Cheng Jianghu" was affected.

This seems to be a very unreasonable thing. What happened was "Baby Shrimp", not "Cheng Jianghu". "Cheng Jianghu" is still in business, why are the guests not willing to go?

"Forget it, change to another one. This one is next to 'Baby Shrimp'. It's unlucky." A group of guests stood at the door of "Cheng Jianghu", and the woman at the head said: "It's nothing to wait for usually, let's forget about it today, next door If such a big thing happened, if I was asked to sit at the door and wait, I would not do it."

Another person echoed: "When you said you came here to eat today, I wanted to object. You don't want to wait at the door, and I don't even feel comfortable going in to eat."

"Then change to another one. I heard that there is a famous frog fish head that tastes good." The third person said: "We have eaten this one several times, how about a different taste?"

"Okay, then go eat the beautiful frog fish head."

There are customers who choose other restaurants because of "unlucky". Ming Shu sat in the police car and observed this very interesting scene.

At the beginning, "Cheng Jianghu" became popular because of Qiu Min's blockbuster recommendation. This had nothing to do with the "Shrimp Baby" on the side, but "Shrimp Baby" suffered a disaster because of this.

Now that the owner of "Baby Shrimp" died tragically, it had nothing to do with the "Cheng Jianghu" next door, and the business of "Cheng Jianghu" was also affected.

Things in society seem to have nothing to do with each other, but in fact they are all connected with each other.

Soon, the phone rang, and Mingshu picked it up. A team member said that a total of three old residents of the gear factory confirmed that the person in the photo was Qin Ying.

"I can't even remember what Qin Ying looked like, but when I saw this photo, I immediately remembered it." Lao Xu used to be a worker in a gear factory, and he was a worker in the same section as Qin Xiong's father, Qin Anqiang.

The old man held the photo, and his eyes looked a little nostalgic, "If you want to talk about Qin Ying and Qin Xiong, I still think Qin Ying is better, smart, lively, and able to talk, unlike Qin Xiong, who has nothing to say to adults since he was a child."

What happened 30 to [-] years ago, don’t talk about monitoring, even paper documents are hard to find. Now the police only know that there is Qin Ying, but they don’t know how old Qin Ying was when he was picked up by the Qin family.

Even this "picking up" has a question mark.

Back then, every family was not rich, and one more child meant one more mouth. Why did the Qin family pick up a child?There are so many orphans in society, why did Qin Anqiang choose Qin Ying?

Mingshu had no choice but to ask Lao Xu for more details, "Do you remember how old Qin Ying was when you first met him?"

Old Xu thought for a while, then raised his right hand, "It's just this tall, he looks five or six years old. Qin Anqiang said that the youngest son was raised in the countryside before, and now he lives with him."

Five or six years old, if Qin Ying was indeed five or six years old when she came to the Qin family, it would be equivalent to living under the same roof as Qin Xiong for about ten years.

Ming Shu asked again: "How is the relationship between Qin Xiong and Qin Ying?"

Old Xu shook his head, "Qin Anqiang and his wife both prefer Qin Ying as the youngest son. Maybe they feel that they owe the youngest son to the country all the time. But anyway, partiality is partiality. If I were Qin Xiong , I’m not feeling well either.”

The Qin family said that Qin Ying was the youngest son who grew up in the countryside, but the field team had already gone to the Qin family's hometown to investigate, and there had never been a boy named "Qin Ying" there.Qin Anqiang's relatives also said that after Qin Anqiang went to the city, he almost never returned to his hometown, so how could he foster his younger son.

Ming Shu asked: "How are Qin Anqiang and his wife Bai Hong doing?"

"Qin Anqiang has always been in good health. I remember that he left shortly after his granddaughter was born. Hey, it's a pity that he hasn't retired yet." Lao Xu said regretfully, "But his wife's health is really not very good. He was hospitalized and went to another city for treatment for a year.”

According to Huang Qing, Bai Hong fell ill because of Qin Ying's disappearance, and died not long after.

If Bai Hong's health has been in poor condition, it is indeed possible that the loss of his beloved son will lead to the deterioration of his condition, and finally he will die in depression.But Qin Anqiang was in a strong body and survived the most difficult period, how could he pass away so soon?

"Ming team!" Xiao Man said on the phone: "I have already checked the photo you brought back, and the fingerprints on it are consistent with Qin Ke's. Qin Ying's photo was put in by Qin Ke!"

Mingshu had anticipated this possibility earlier, so he was naturally not surprised.

Qin Ke's hatred for her parents is in sharp contrast to her feelings for Qin Ying. What does she really know?

Xiao Man said again: "Zhou Yuan also found something. I wanted to report it together, but he said no, he has to report it to you."

Mingshu understood as soon as he heard it, Zhou Yuan was thinking about what he said last time, and laughed, "I'll go back right away."

"This is Qin Ke's search and browsing records." Zhou Yuan gave up the seat in front of the monitor, "What she checked on her encrypted laptop at home were almost all unsolved murders and horror stories from all over the country. .It is worth noting that the mobile phone and computer are used by her alone, but she never reads these contents on the mobile phone."

"Because the mobile phone will be taken out, there is a possibility of loss." Ming Shu said while watching: "She reads these things on the mobile phone, and there is a risk of being known."

Zhou Yuan said: "The notebook is very clean, there are no games installed, and there is no online shopping record. Qin Ke seems to only use it to read unsolved cases and communicate with suspense lovers."

Mingshu noticed that Qin Ke once posted a story about his family on the largest suspense lovers forum in China four years ago—of course, the specific names of people and places are all pseudonyms.

She said that she never knew her father had a younger brother, and her parents never mentioned it, and she couldn't find anyone other than grandparents, parents, herself and her younger brother in the family photo album.But as a teenager, she stumbled across a photo in an old dictionary.There were four people in the photo, three of whom she knew, namely her father and grandparents, but one she had never seen before.

Judging by the poses and expressions of everyone in the photo, this should be a family photo.

Since it was a family photo, why hadn't she not only never seen the other person, but hadn't even heard of them?

She took the photo to find her mother, and her mother was shocked when she saw the photo, not only tore it up, but also asked her where she found the photo?

Surprised and frightened, she pointed to the bookcase inside.

Mother hurried over and pulled out all the books in the bookcase.

The books fell to the ground with a rustle, and my mother flipped through them one by one like crazy.

Standing beside her mother, she felt that her mother suddenly became very strange.

While her mother continued to flip through the book, she quietly walked to the trash can, carefully found two fragments of the photo, and hid them in her pocket.

Soon, my father came home.

Mother and father talked for a long time, and immediately sold some old books to people who collected waste books and newspapers.

In the evening, her father asked her if she had seen similar photos anywhere else.

She shook her head.

Then she thought—even if I saw it, I wouldn't say it.

"Is that person our relative?" she asked.

Mother's expression became strange again.The father said: "No, it's just someone I know. Remember, he is not our family. There is no such person in our family."

After turning over the matter, she pasted the two photos she picked up together.For many days and nights, whenever she thought of the person in the photo, she felt that the person had something to say to her.

She has an aunt.It stands to reason that my aunt is a very close relative, but her mother doesn't like her very much.She had something hidden in her heart, knowing that asking her parents would yield no results, so she thought of her aunt.

What if my aunt knows something!

Taking advantage of the holiday, she went to her aunt's house, and after giving the presents, she took out the photos.

My aunt said, isn't this Qin Ying?

Qin Ying, it was the first time she knew that she had a brother-in-law, and this brother-in-law had disappeared before she was born, and her grandparents passed away one after another because she couldn't accept the disappearance of her brother-in-law.

She has reached the age where she likes to think, and she can't help thinking, is my uncle really missing?If he really disappeared, why didn't his parents dare to mention him?Why can't I find anything related to my uncle at home except for this photo?

Gradually, a terrible guess came to her mind.

She tried to refute herself, but couldn't find any basis for her refutation.

The suspense lovers forum is full of people with big brains. There are many replies to this post, and many people have come to the same conclusion - your uncle is not missing, but was killed by your parents.

Some even say that your grandparents may not have died of natural causes.

As for the motive, there are different opinions.

"Qin Ke registered this forum five years ago, and posted this post four years ago, when she was only 17 years old." Mingshu said, "Can you find out where she is online?"

Zhou Yuan nodded, "It's an Internet cafe on Longcheng Road."

"Qin Ke started indulging herself at the age of 17." Ming Shu took a few steps in front of the monitor, "It seems that this incident indeed affected her entire outlook on life."

Zhou Yuan said: "It's a pity that she has already been killed, otherwise she would definitely be able to provide us with more information."

Mingshu assigns a task: "Continue to screen Qin Ke's interpersonal relationship, and one more thing, your technical investigation will have to work hard."

Zhou Yuan immediately stood up straight, "Ming team, just give orders."

"I suspect that the murderer has been eyeing Qin Ke on the Internet for a long time." Ming Shu said, "Try to find those who secretly observed Qin Ke."

Qin Ying was an unexpected line, and while touching this line, the routine investigation was not interrupted.

Qin Xionghuanghui is a businessman, and before the end of this summer, he is still the leader in the catering industry on Longcheng Road, so it is inevitable that he will be hated like "Cheng Jianghu".Xu Chun hurried back with a clue that cannot be ignored——

The predecessor of "Cheng Jianghu", "Xinyang Kitchen", also cooks Jianghu dishes, because there is a popular "Shrimp Baby" next to it, and "Xinyang Kitchen" has been in poor business.

The word "Xinyang" comes from Qu Xinyang, the son of the boss Qu Yongfei. This child suffers from heart disease and urgently needed a sum of money for treatment last year.Qu Yongfei and his wife worked from dawn to dusk, and in order to boost their business, they specially developed a pair of dishes.But not long after, this dish was copied by "Baby Shrimp".

Shuangpin is actually not an innovation, but in the third section of Longcheng Road, only the "Xinyang Kitchen" family does this. "Shrimp Baby" obviously borrowed Qu Yongfei's idea.

For this reason, Qu Yongfei consulted with Qin Xiong and asked for it.But Qin Xiong said in front of many people: "We each do our own business, your family's business is not good, it's because you can't work hard on your own. Whose family has no problems? I will take care of your family today, and tomorrow will be a long way All the bosses come to sell miserably and beg me to take care of them, so can I still do this business?"

In the first half of this year, Qu Xinyang failed to make it through and left, and "Xinyang Kitchen" stopped welcoming customers after lingering for a period of time, and then welcomed a new boss and became "Cheng Jianghu".

At present, Qu Yongfei's family has left Dongye City and is missing.As for the motive of committing the crime, Qu Yongfei is not without it.

While Xu Chun was discussing the case with Mingshu, Lan Qiao came to the serious case team.

"Hey, Qiaoer is here!" Xu Chun greeted: "We just ordered dinner, we will eat together later."

Lan Qiao looked serious, with a little apology on her brows, "I know that the serious crime team is currently under the pressure of two cases, and has no spare time to deal with other cases. But I must report the disappearance of Qiu Min to you."

Mingshu opened the table and chairs, "Don't be so polite, just talk, let's solve it together."

Lan Qiao told Mingshu completely about Hong Chuanfei kidnapping Qiu Min, and Qiu Min was taken away by another person, and said: "The clues were broken at Yatou Mountain, if we continue to investigate, it will inevitably involve Shouquan Town—— Because Qiu Min’s mobile phone was last used in Shouquan Town. The case you are tracking is also in Shouquan Town.”

"The person who took Qiu Min away is not simple." Xiao Yuan appeared in the serious crime team, "He is using Hong Chuanfei's hand to do something."

"Ju Xiao!" Lan Qiao hadn't dealt with Xiao Yu'an before, so she stood up quickly.

Xiao Yu'an smiled at her gently, "Blue team, thank you for your hard work."

After hearing the ins and outs, Mingshu was following clues in his mind when he suddenly heard someone's cell phone vibrate.

Xu Chun looked left and right, "Ming team, your phone."

Mingshu picked it up and saw that it was the young apprentice Fang Yuanhang.

After connecting, the noise came together with Fang Yuanhang's voice: "Master! Your deduction is correct! There is indeed a dead body on Qiyue Mountain!"