Five Cases

Chapter 25: midwinter

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"Boom!"

Lu Hui slammed open the door of the office, rushed to sit behind the desk in a hurry.

Rao Feifei was so shocked that she almost lost her phone: "Zu Lu, you're here so early." She looked down at her phone, "It's only seven o'clock."

"Is it strange that I come to work on time?" Lu Hui asked back.

Rao Feifei puffed her cheeks: "It's quite strange."

As soon as the words were finished, the door was knocked open again, this time it was Ji Fanyang.

Seeing Ji Fanyang, Lu Hui moved his chair uncomfortably.

Ji Fanyang took out an oiled paper bag from his handbag and threw it on Lu Hui's table: "Have breakfast." His tone was not pleasant, "We made an agreement earlier, I cook, you wash the dishes .”

Lu Hui blinked and pretended to be pitiful: "I don't have to eat, so I don't have to wash the dishes."

"That's because you ran away early and didn't eat because you didn't wash the dishes!" Ji Fanyang was anxious, "You still don't eat well when you're old. Are you thirty-two or three?"

"Oh, it's really heartbreaking for you to say that." Lu Hui covered his chest, picked up the warm oiled paper bag on the table, opened it, and took a bite, "Well, it's okay."

"Brother Yang made it himself?" Rao Feifei pulled out her eyes from the phone screen and looked at Lu Hui.

Lu Hui smirked, finished eating in a hurry, rolled up the greased paper and threw it into the trash can: "It's over."

"Stingy." Rao Feifei rolled her eyes.

Ji Fanyang sighed and comforted the young girl: "I'll bring you an extra copy some other day."

"Well, thank you Brother Yang." Rao Feifei smiled.

Lu Hui knocked on the desk impatiently: "Is there a case? Is there a case?"

"Yes, yes." Rao Feifei took out a folder and threw it on Lu Hui's desk, "An old corpse, Yangliu Village, Gaotao County."

"So far? Don't go." Lu Hui refused.

Ji Fanyang picked up the folder and flipped through it, saying, "It looks good, and it's two cases linked together."

"Two cases?" Yang Jie opened the door and walked into the office, "Sounds interesting."

"That's my line." Lu Hui said dissatisfied.

Ji Fanyang leaned on the desk in front of Lu Hui, reading the case description in a soft voice: "Six children are missing. While searching for the lost children, the police dogs found a mutilated body."

"Group Lu?" Rao Feifei asked.

Lu Hui turned his head to look at the window. Through the glass window, there was a vast expanse of snow outside. In the mid-winter of December, a layer of skin can be frozen alive, he asked reluctantly, "Has the corpse been sent to the forensic doctor? "

"The forensic doctor gave the appraisal opinion on the spot yesterday, but the report will come out within seven days." Ji Fanyang replied, "The time of death is about two years, there are soft tissues left, and the bones have not yet fully ossified."

Lu Hui stood up and put on a thick down jacket: "Let's go and have a look at the scene."

"Which scene, the child's or the corpse's?" Rao Feifei asked.

"Of course it's a corpse." Lu Hui said strangely, "Finding a child is not under the jurisdiction of the Serious Crime Squad, right?"

"... Gao Ju said that to take up this case, the child must be found first." Rao Feifei stammered.

Lu Hui frowned: "Do I look like a police dog?"

Ji Fanyang comforted him: "It won't take much, right?"

"Time is money." Lu Hui insisted, and he reached out to ask Ji Fanyang for the clip, "give it to me."

Rao Feifei snatched the folder from Ji Fanyang's hand: "Then this case has to be handed over to Team Six."

"You..." Lu Hui withdrew his hand in embarrassment, he stared at the young girl, "give it to me."

Having been together for more than half a year, Feifei Rao understands Lu Hui's temper well enough, perhaps not as well as Ji Fanyang, but she is also very courageous: "Group Lu, I have no other choice."

Lu Hui exhaled and slowed down his voice: "Bring it, I'll take it."

Rao Feifei took out the folder: "It doesn't matter if you bluff me, you can still get the forensic report in the high game."

"..." Lu Hui completely lost his opportunistic thoughts, "Okay, okay, bring it."

Rao Feifei handed out the file folder: "Do you need to call the trace inspection?"

"No, the snow is so heavy, a police dog is enough." Lu Hui took the clip, "Let's go."

A group of people went downstairs to the parking lot and stood in front of Lu Hui's car.

Lu Hui frowned: "Take two cars, in case we have to split up."

"Okay." Yang Jie nodded, dragging Rao Feifei, who wanted to say something, to find another car.

Ji Fanyang sat in the co-pilot, Lu Hui got into the driver's cab, started the car and drove out of the parking lot.

"Obviously they can take the same car." Ji Fanyang said.

Lu Hui pretended not to hear.

"..." Ji Fanyang turned to look at Lu Hui, "You pathetic bastard, you just don't feel safe, do you?"

"Why do I feel insecure?" Lu Hui retorted, "Does everyone like you?"

"You just want to play a jerk and make everyone hate you. Are you happy?" Ji Fanyang waved his arms angrily, "Is it that difficult to get along with normal people?"

"It's very difficult. I don't have your natural talent for attracting people." Lu Hui sarcastically said, "It's only been less than four months. You have met all the young girls in the apartment building. You have a sense of accomplishment, right?"

"I'm socializing normally!" Ji Fanyang said, "It's better than you don't know anyone. A girl asked me for your name. She's quite cute."

"All the girls are cute to you." Lu Hui sneered, "Don't introduce them to me, I don't want to know them."

"What good will it do you to scare everyone away?" Ji Fanyang asked.

Lu Hui sniffed: "Quietness can make me think, and you are noisy enough."

"Just calculate what you have done in the past four months!" Ji Fanyang listed one by one, "playing the guitar in the middle of the night, making my favorite music messy, pissing me off, sneaking into my bedroom to pretend to be a ghost , trying to bungee jump from the balcony…”

"It's interesting, isn't it?" Lu Hui narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Wait, you forgot..."

"Shut up, I've aged at least ten years to endure you." Ji Fanyang roughly interrupted Lu Hui, raised his right hand and rubbed his temple to reduce the fire.

Lu Hui tapped the steering wheel happily: "Then we are about the same age, very practical skill."

Ji Fanyang rolled his eyes and sighed, this was already his signature expression when facing Lu Hui.

Lu Hui happily turned on the car stereo and drove unsteadily all the way to Yangliu Village, Gaotao County.

After the car stopped, the police from the Gaotao County Police Station greeted him: "Hello, is this Team Leader Lu?"

"Well, Lu Hui." Lu Hui closed the car door and wrapped his down jacket tightly, "What clues did you all find?"

"The police dog lingered by a well for a long time, and the children may have played by the well for a while and left." The police said.

"Are there footprints in the snow?" Lu Hui asked.

The police replied: "Yes, there are very messy footprints, and the trajectory cannot be seen."

"Go to the well first to have a look." Lu Hui said, "How many groups have you divided up?"

"Four times, one group collected mutilated corpses in the woods, one group searched nearby for missing children, one group checked surveillance video, and one group searched for recent abduction records." The police said.

Lu Hui nodded, and followed the police into the village.