The case was particularly serious and complicated. Xie Lanshan was detained for interrogation for 48 hours. During this time, Shen Liufei went to Puren Hospital to visit Tao Jun. Tao Jun's brain tumor surgery was very successful. Still in hospital, he was in high spirits and had a clear consciousness. He was already clamoring to be discharged from the hospital. Tao Longyue was busy investigating this rape and murder case, and took time to visit his father, but he was afraid that Lao Tzu would not be able to withstand the excitement, so he never said anything about Xie Lanshan's alleged rape and murder.
It's just the evening scene, the sky is dark, the autumn is cold and the wind is cool, and the ward has no windows. Shen Liufei sat beside the hospital bed against the light, and lowered his head to cut apples for Tao Jun. He held an apple in his right hand, a knife in his left, and the knife flew with his hand, and the peel was thin and rolled, and his movements were quite agile.
Tao Jun had known Shen Liufei before, which dates back to ten years ago, and he had never met him. He only communicated and consulted some criminal psychology cases by email or letter.
Tao Jun had a preset for Shen Liufei's image. No matter how young he was, he was still in his thirties, but he didn't expect that he was contacted by such a tall and beautiful young man from thousands of miles away. He stared at Shen Liufei for a moment, then suddenly said, "So you are left-handed."
Tao Jun sent a letter to this teacher Shen, and the other party's reply was written with a pen, and the handwriting was very handsome and unrestrained.
Shen Liufei didn't say a word, raised his eyes and looked at each other quietly.
Tao Jun took the initiative to explain: "Xiao Liang in our team is also left-handed. If he uses a pen to write a report, he will have to spend a lot of time." After thinking about it, he also found this question strange, and added with a smile: "It is also It varies from person to person, it varies from person to person.”
Shen Liufei slightly hooked the corner of his mouth, and changed his left hand with the knife to his right. He could use his left and right hands flexibly, and the peeling action was still neat and skillful. After cutting the apple, he asked Tao Jun thoughtfully, "Do you need to cut it into pieces?"
Tao Jun shook his head: "Rough gentlemen, it's not that particular."
Shen Liufei handed the apple, and wiped his hands with the tissue on the bedside table. He said, "Captain Tao, I'm actually here today for a case."
Tao Jun took a bite of the apple, which was both crisp and sweet: "Whose case?"
Shen Liufei said, "Thank you Lanshan."
Tao Jun's expression changed abruptly, and he put the apple that he took a bite to aside.
Shen Liufei explained the situation of this rape and murder case in simple terms, but he did not miss a time node and case information.
Ordinarily, based on the relationship between Tao Jun and Xie Lanshan, the first reaction to hearing this should be disbelief. But Shen Liufei saw a strange look on Tao Jun's face, as if he had expected it, although this unnatural look was quickly replaced by a more reasonable look. Mock painters are known for looking at negative human emotions, which he thinks is unusual.
Tao Jun really asked, "Do you believe him?"
Shen Liufei asked back, "Don't you believe him?"
Tao Jun was immediately stopped by the question, and after a long pause, he sighed softly: "His father went early, and he himself stayed in the most terrifying and dark place for six years. This child's experience is really complicated."
"You have known him longer than me. You should know better than me what kind of person Xie Lanshan is." Shen Liufei was silent for a moment, his face was serious and serious, "I believe him."
Tao Jun looked at Shen Liufei up and down again, his eyes were a little sharper than before: "Isn't this trust from Teacher Shen not mixed with selfishness?"
After all, the paper can't contain the fire, the scorching affection is stubborn, and the eyes are hard to hide. Although Lao Tao is an old-fashioned old-fashioned man, he is the husband An who has a sharp case. The last time a few people were in the ward, he was more or less Saw some clues. Shen Liufei disdains strong defense and denial, and it is inconvenient for him to make a complete confession. He just stares at the other party with his usual calm attitude.
"Oh, it shouldn't be, this kid doesn't have this tendency since he was a child. I still remember that he used to carve a rabbit for Song Qilian..." Tao Jun sighed again, his eyes became firm, and he struggled to get up from the bed. : "Okay, call Long Yue to me, and then sum up this case!"
Shen Liufei supported the old captain to prevent him from getting too excited, and said in a low voice, "I remember that I often consulted you about some unsolved rape and murder cases for a while."
Tao Jun frowned and recalled, nodded and said, "It happened many years ago, it's all old cases."
"With a dog necklace, sewn corners of the mouth, and stripped human skin, I'm sure I've heard this modus operandi from you," Shen Liufei frowned, holding the old man upright, and continued, "Trouble Captain Tao thinks about it carefully, I have a hunch that this case has some connection with the old case of the year, and the real culprit is someone else."
"That's probably a case from more than 20 years ago... I can't even remember it for a while..."
When Tao Jun squinted to recall the old case, Tao Longyue came in from outside the ward. He saw Shen Liufei was also stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that he must have known about Xie Lanshan.
"No accident, Alan will soon clear his suspicions," Tao Longyue said to the two people in the room, "When Xie Lanshan was being interrogated, another young woman's body was found. Exactly the same, and it now seems likely that this case was a serial murder by the same killer."
The old case more than 20 years ago, enough time has passed, Shen Liufei did not get the answer he wanted from Tao Jun and returned to his residence. He sat in the study, looking up information in his notebook.
Since he was a child, he was very interested in violent crimes in which the victims are women. He was addicted to stamp collecting. He had several thick books that recorded women's cases. He also collected and stored a lot in his notebook, and these were just his The tip of the iceberg on the philatelic road. They come from relevant practitioners such as police officers, lawyers, and social reporters. New cases are neatly organized into dense computer folders, and old cases with unknown information decades ago are archived in the form of briefing books. Most of the photos at the murder scene are horrifying and bloody, but the stories behind these photos are very tragic. Some of the women who were raped, abused and tortured died, some disappeared, and some turned into perpetrators. The same pattern brutalizes the next victim.
It is not easy to face these human tragedies directly. Every time Shen Liufei opens a folder to search for a moment, he has to stop and take a deep breath.
Intermittently looking for a while in the old case materials, Shen Liufei took out a photo clipped inside a book by his hand, and gently rubbed it between his fingers.
It was the one Xie Lanshan saw.
A young mother with her son in her arms, a young child clinging to her mother, he touched the face of the woman in the photo with infinite affection, and immediately closed the notebook, making the room lose its only light source and return to darkness.
He remembered what Fu Yunxian said to him, "There is something in your heart that will overflow and break the embankment."
It's easier said than done, this is a chronic ailment in his heart, he can't relieve it, he can't get rid of it, he can only vent in the boxing ring again and again, and he is full of scars.
Shen Liufei sat silently in the dark for a long time, then opened the notebook again and searched for an old case similar to this skinning case from memory.
Before dawn, he finally found the needle in the sea and found it in a thick leather notebook with an A4 size.
In an old case that happened in Cangnan twenty-five years ago, the murderer's modus operandi was exactly the same as Luo Xin's case. He committed the crime for four consecutive years and raped and murdered 11 young women in total. Since the Internet had not yet emerged and the case had been solved for a long time, outsiders did not know about this case, and not many inside the police had heard of it.
Thinking about it, it was also because of the long-term relationship, and the details of the case were not recorded much. I only knew that the criminal suspect did not fall under the law. Before the police came to the door, he committed suicide in fear of crime.
Shen Liufei opened the file of the police officer who handled the rape and murder case in Cangnan, and found that this old criminal policeman named Zhu Mingwu had worked with Tao Jun in the same criminal investigation team.
Entering the city bureau in the afternoon, Ding Li told him that Xie Lanshan had already left.
Shen Liufei asked her, where have you been
Ding Li replied, I don't know, maybe it's going home. Deputy Bureau Liu asked him to take a vacation, and it was inappropriate for him to participate in the case of Luo Xin as a suspect.
As if knowing that their relationship is unusual, Ding Li apologized with a smile and kind words, and specifically asked Shen Liufei to convey the apology of the entire serious crime team to Xie Lanshan: "Mr. Shen, please tell Brother Xie, it's not that we don't trust him, it's business affairs, Deputy Bureau Liu has been watching."
Shen Liufei looked at Ding Li, and then at Xiao Liang and the others hiding behind a girl. He saw an emotion called doubt in their eyes. To be honest, as a police officer, it is not an outrageous reaction to be suspicious of a suspect before the case is settled. What's more, this kind of emotion, when it comes, it's like a swarm, when it goes away, it's the most annoying, and it kills people without a single shot.
What's more, Xie Lanshan deliberately resisted in silence when he was interrogated, and it seemed to others that his cover-up meant a lot, which was indeed abnormal.
After leaving the city bureau, I didn't know where to look for someone, so I searched near the bar where Xie Lanshan occasionally haunts, but to no avail, he went home.
When Shen Liufei entered the door, the lights were not turned on in the house. When the lights were dim, neon lights flashed outside the window. Xie Lanshan's house was silently unpopular, but those bright spots of light passed through the window and bounced on the dove-grey floor, inspiring people's hearts. float.
The person was not in the living room nor in the bedroom. Shen Liufei heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom. He followed the sound and pushed the door in.
There was no warning to see Xie Lanshan sitting on the floor with his head bowed. Because of the light in the evening, his face was in a state of bizarre split, half bright and clean, half dark and unpredictable.
There were broken glass slag everywhere, and it looked like mercury pouring out of the ground from a distance. Shen Liufei didn't understand until he got closer. Xie Lanshan smashed the mirror in the bathroom. He was soaked all over, his hands were slumped on his knees, some finely broken glass was inserted into his fist joints, and blood dripped from his fingers.
The fresh blood, mixed with the water overflowing from the bathtub, flowed a thin red all over the ground, and flowed all the way to Shen Liufei's feet.
Shen Liufei stepped on the broken glass slag and came to Xie Lanshan. Xie Lanshan raised his face, with tired bloodshot eyes, and looked at the other side blankly.
Fingers gently stroked his hair, his face, Shen Liufei asked softly, "Does it hurt?"
This question, like bringing him back from hell to the world, Xie Lanshan suddenly resisted like crazy, pounced on Shen Liufei's neck. Shen Liufei stepped back in time, but the person who came was already in front of him, forcing him to punch him. I've fought before, but it's never been as deadly as this time. Xie Lanshan is like a beast, to be slaughtered and conquered. They tumbled and fought on the ice-cold tile floor full of glass slag. Shen Liufei always kept his strength, and was unwilling and unbearable to aggravate each other's pain.
In the end, it was a matter of course that he fell down—his throat was blocked by Xie Lanshan with a mirror fragment.
The two people's chests rose and fell rhythmically, Xie Lanshan was completely lying on Shen Liufei's body, looking down at him. There was blood on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were buried in shadows, as if he couldn't make out any expression, as if he was smiling frivolously.
"Do you still believe me?" Xie Lanshan sent his hand forward, and the tip of the glass touched Shen Liufei's carotid artery - there are tattoos, gorgeous lotus flowers or phoenix tail feathers, because of the current dangerous situation The blood vessels expand and the Adam's apple rolls, making it look like a living thing.
Shen Liufei was forced to tilt his chin slightly, his cheekbones were also scratched by the glass slag on the ground, and blood slid down his deep outline. Xie Lanshan approached his face and asked again, almost touching his lips, "Is this worthy of your trust?"
Shen Liufei raised his hand, took Xie Lanshan's hand holding the mirror fragment, and took it to his throat - fortunately, Xie Lanshan retreated in time, and the glass tip pierced in, but the wound was not deep, only a little blood was shed.
"How else to prove it?" Shen Liufei took it calmly, looking at each other calmly with a pair of deep eyes, but his tone was serious.
The ferocious haze in Xie Lanshan's eyes finally subsided, he let go of the weapon in his hand and leaned over to lick Shen Liufei's wound. The sweet and warm blood was sucked in his mouth, which actually meant eating the marrow and knowing the taste. Xie Lanshan rode on Shen Liufei's body, ripped his clothes, held his face and kissed him. Shen Liufei also raised his head and closed his eyes, letting him vent. In the end, he found Shen Liufei's lips and guided a part of the other party into his body in a deep kiss. He felt his own existence in the sharp pain and bone-biting joy.
A scribbled but intense affair in the bathroom ended, they went back to the bedroom, Shen Liufei took care of Xie Lanshan's wound on his hand, the glass got stuck in the flesh, like some flags were planted deep and shallow between the fist peaks, it was impossible not to deal with it.
Criminal police are accustomed to going in and out of the hail of bullets, injuries are as common as eating, and the medicine cabinet is always available at home. Xie Lanshan sat on the bed, and Shen Liufei half-kneeled in front of him to debride and bandage him.
Seeing this man's drooping eyes and serious look, Xie Lanshan couldn't help but laugh.
Shen Liufei raised his eyes and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
Xie Lanshan became a habit of teasing people, and raised his eyebrows: "If a wife is so virtuous, what more can a husband ask for."
After the wound was treated, Shen Liufei squeezed Xie Lanshan's injured hand as if he was punished, and got up, his tone was flat: "Take care of yourself, you are not only your own now."
He had hardly closed his eyes in the two days he was interrogated, and now the suspicion has not been completely cleared, he was already sleepy. Xie Lanshan lay in Shen Liufei's arms, his face was facing his lower abdomen, and he hugged his waist like a child.
"When I was very young, people often reminded me what kind of power people should have and what attitude people should exist in," Xie Lanshan touched the bullet chain pendant on his chest, his eyes felt warm, he closed his eyes and said, " It's my dad who told me that before, and it's you now."