Perhaps because of his older age, Wu Zhen has more doubts than Sha Chun.
Mingshu sent Xu Chun to Wu Zhen's hometown. As soon as Xu Chun arrived at Wu's home, he was slammed out by Wu Zhen's two sisters and brother-in-law.
Longhe City is just a small city, and Xunchuan Town under it is even smaller. This kind of small place has a characteristic - which family has something big, and in less than a day, the whole town knows.
Wu Zhen was in Xinchuan Town. He was a "well-known" figure and a scar that the Wu family didn't want to mention.
More than 20 years ago, Wu Zhen was a rare college student in Xunchuan Town. He has good grades and works hard. From elementary school to high school, he has been used by every family to educate their own children.
"Why don't you work so hard? Look at Wu Zhen!"
"How many points did Wu Zhen get in the final exam, how many points did you get, and do you still want to go out to play?"
"Wu Zhen went home to do his homework again. When did you become so self-conscious?"
After four years of schooling, Wu Zhen returned home dressed in fine clothes. Before graduating, he interned at Longhe City TV Station. The leader personally promised to sign a labor contract when he got his graduation certificate.
To the people of Xinchuan Town, the editor in charge of news of the TV station sounds really foreign. The Wu family also has a lot of face. Wu's father and Wu's mother praised their son whenever they met, and Wu Zhen's two younger sisters were also honored.
But in the good years, Wu Zhen resigned.
This incident has not yet caused any gossip in Xunchuan Town. Compared with the anger of the Wu family, most townspeople felt that Wu Zhen is so smart and knowledgeable that he must have a better plan to resign. A man should go out and work hard when he is young. The golden rice bowl earned by hard work is better than a lifetime. The iron rice bowl is good.
But year after year, Wu Zhen gradually disappeared.
Some people said that Wu Zhen was seen outside. He was very poor, he didn't have a serious job, and he didn't even have a place to live.
If only one person said this, it would be fine. Later, a young man who returned to the town said that Wu Zhen was working as a screenwriter, but no one bought his script at all.
Some people believe it, and some people still don't want to believe it.
So someone went to ask the Wu family, the father Wu had a fiery personality, and when he mentioned Wu Zhen, he became furious, while others sighed and remained silent.
If Wu Zhen got along well, the Wu family would definitely not react in this way.
This confirmed the rumor that Wu Zhen had accomplished nothing and was destitute.
People always seem to be happy to see a positive image come crashing down, especially when this positive image has weighed heavily on them over the years.
Those parents who boasted about Wu Zhen to their children, it is hard to say that they are not jealous of the Wu family, and it is hard to say that they do not want their children to work hard and surpass Wu Zhen, making themselves proud. Those children who always listened to "Wu Zhen how" might have hated Wu Zhen long ago.
Now that they learned that Wu Zhen's affairs were so bad and that he was destroying his future, people began to talk about it, and they also revealed the events of Wu Zhen's childhood, and told them with more fuel.
For a long time, Xunchuan Town was filled with a "pleasant" atmosphere.
The townspeople who are not highly educated have even learned some vernacular words, such as "Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted", such as "Shang Zhongyong".
The Wu family couldn't accept this kind of gap, and they were ashamed of Wu Zhen.
Because of the uncooperative Wu family, Xu Chun was unable to get any valuable clues. He was about to go to the middle school where Wu Zhen once attended, but noticed a middle-aged man sneaking behind the tree opposite the Wu family.
The man and Xu Chun looked at each other, turned around in a panic, and ran into the alley.
Who is Xu Chun? The most sturdy field worker of the serious crime team, who was a key member of the SWAT team a few years ago, was dug up by Mingshu himself to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. Lu Yanzhou was not happy for a while.
Catching a middle-aged man who escaped was a no-brainer for Xu Chun.
"Ah!" The man shouted when his hands were cut behind him, "Let me go! What are you doing?"
"What are you running for?" Xu Chun shouted.
"I..." The man hesitated, "I didn't run."
"You said you didn't run?"
"You let me go first."
Xu Chun was not afraid of the man running again, and let go of the man's arms, "Who are you? Why are you hiding behind a tree?"
The man was so frightened that he sweated profusely, and instead of answering, he asked, "Are you the police who came to investigate Wu Zhen's disappearance?"
Xu Chun immediately became vigilant, "What do you know?"
The man looked in the direction of the Wu family, his eyes were hesitant, and his words were unfounded, "Come with me, I have something I want to tell you police."
Xu Chun was very skilled, and with a gun, he was not afraid of men digging holes for him. But the man's behavior was really suspicious, so he followed the man down an alley and stood at the door of the man's house, Xu Chun still hesitated for a moment.
The man smiled awkwardly, "I can't beat you again."
Xunchuan Town is a small building one by one, and the same goes for the man's house. Xu Chun followed him in and saw the man take out an ID card from the drawer.
Luo Xiu, 40 years old.
Same age as Wu Zhen.
Xu Chun took the ID card. The photo on the ID card was a little different from the man, but it was still the same person.
After so many years of fieldwork, Xu Chun was the first time he saw someone introduce himself by handing over his ID card.
"I don't have my ID card with me, so I said there is no proof." Luo Xiu said, "Sit down, I'll pour you a glass of water."
Xu Chun was still vigilant, "What's your relationship with the Wu family?"
"Wu Zhen and I are friends who grew up together." Luo Xiu sighed, "After he left here, he cut off contact with his family, and he and I were the only ones who would make phone calls. He would still send letters in the early years."
Xu Chun recalled that the technical investigation had previously checked Wu Zhen's communication records and found that Wu Zhen had not contacted anyone in his hometown within half a year.
"However, in the past few years, our contact has become less and less. You came to our town, you should have heard that he was having a bad time outside." Luo Xiu looked gloomy, "In June of this year, Wu Zhen suddenly gave me Made a phone call and I was surprised."
"June?"
Wu Zhen disappeared in June!
"Yeah." Luo Xiu nodded, "It's an unfamiliar number. I didn't know it was Wu Zhen before I picked it up. He first asked me how I was doing recently, and then asked about my children's schooling. He rarely said anything before. I guessed at the time that he might have something important to tell me. Sure enough, after I finished answering his question, he waited for a while and said he wanted to ask me something."
Xu Chun asked, "What's the matter?"
"On New Year's Day, take care of his mother. When his mother dies, he will send a wreath in his name - our funeral custom here is that when an elder dies, children must tie and send wreaths." Luo Xiu picked up the phone and found the call log, "Look, this is it."
Xu Chun saw that it was a landline phone in Dongye City. The call duration was 6 minutes and 31 seconds, and the call time was 2:15 pm on June 21.
"I think it's very strange. I take care of my mother during the New Year's and festivals, and help send wreaths when my mother dies. It sounds like he is going to have an accident." Luo Xiu said: "I asked him what was wrong, did he have any difficulties? He said no, and asked me not to think about it. Before hanging up, he asked me several times not to tell others about this, not even my family, but to do my brother a favor."
Xu Chun asked, "Do you know that Wu Zhen is missing?"
Luo Xiu nodded while sighing, "I know, the police came to investigate some time ago."
Xu Chun said angrily, "Then why don't you tell the truth?"
Luo Xiu shook his head, "I grew up with Wu Zhen. He believed in me, and I promised him. I don't want to betray him."
Xu Chun said, "Do you think Wu Zhen is not missing, but did something happen to escape?"
Luo Xiu nodded with difficulty.
Xu Chun was quite speechless, "Then are you willing to tell me now?"
"I thought Wu Zhen would contact me if there is anything I need help
, I can still help him. "Luo Xiu said:" But until now, Wu Zhen still has no news. I don't know whether he is hurting people or being hurt by others. "
Xu Chun hurriedly passed this important information back to the serious crime team. After investigation, the number belonged to a canteen on Yilu Street, Dongcheng District.
These days, everyone has a mobile phone, landline phones are becoming less and less, grocery stores have been replaced by chain convenience stores, and almost all of them have cancelled public telephones. On the edge of Dongye City, Yilu Street is an old residential area that has not yet been planned and developed. There are also many canteens that retain the style of the last century, and there are public telephones next to the cash register.
"The surveillance in the commissary has long since broken." Fang Yuanhang reported on the phone, "But the boss has a good memory, and he still remembers Wu Zhen, saying that it was rare for someone to make a public phone call, which left a deep impression on him. Wu Zhen called After the call, he bought mineral water and cigarettes, which is not surprising. The key is that he also bought a pack of Langweixian. The boss showed me the account book of the day. After Wu Zhen made the call, the store did sell it. A pack of Langweixian came out."
Ming Shu sat on Zhou Yuan's desk, "Lang Wei Xian?"
"It's weird, right?" Fang Yuanhang said, "Master, can you imagine a 40-year-old uncle eating Langweixian while walking on the road?"
Mingshu immediately contacted Xu Chun, who was still in Xunchuan Town, "Luo Xiu and Wu Zhen are young. Ask him what Wu Zhen's favorite snack was when he was a child."
Luo Xiu said after a moment of thought, "It's the Immortal Langwei."
Langweixian, a puffed food that was popular among children in the last century, quickly occupied the market because of its unique taste.
Although Langweixian can still be seen on supermarket shelves today, it is no longer the same as it used to be.
"Uncle Wu never eats these things. I remember it very clearly, because once I went to the supermarket with Lan Lan to buy a few large packets of potato chips and shared them on the terrace, and Uncle Wu said it." Willow catkins are also Liuguang The contracted screenwriter, who has been in the industry soon, has a very lively personality. "He said that when we are screenwriters, the most important thing is the brain. If the brain is broken, nothing can be written. Puffed food affects the brain, it is best not to touch it— This is Uncle Wu's original words."
Ou Xianghe was also surprised when he was asked about Langweixian, "We take care of the meals here, if anyone wants to eat snacks, just register it, and they don't need to spend their own money. Of course, they must go out and buy some snacks by themselves. Wu Zhen seldom eats snacks, at most peanuts, how could a person of his age like to eat puffed food?"
"Zha Wuzhen is right!" Mingshu felt countless clues struggling in his mind, and the scattered strands in the mist seemed to be slowly entangled together, as if to form a prototype.
"The last time Wu Zhen was witnessed, the last time he was photographed by surveillance, and the last time he called old friends in his hometown was on June 21." Zhou Yuan said: "On June 22, he seemed to have evaporated from the world. Come on. And June 22, happened to be Sunday. It was also Sunday that Sha Chun was killed."
Mingshu said: "Assuming that Wu Zhen is not missing, but killed, then the day of his murder is likely to be on Sunday, just like Sha Chun."
Zhou Yuan was firm, "Yes!"
Xing Mu suddenly interrupted, "When Xiao Zhou had a meeting last time, he seemed to be inclined to Wu Zhen's death."
"From my professional point of view, if a person still survives in modern society, he must leave traces of life." Zhou Yuan explained very seriously: "But we can't find these traces. And Wu Zhen's disappearance is a cliff. , The known clues all point to June 21. Compared with disappearance, I personally believe that he has encountered accidents during the period from June 21 to 22. "
"Then did he know that he was going to encounter an accident?" Mingshu said: "Call a friend on a public phone and ask him to take care of his mother; he hardly eats puffed food, thinking that puffed food will hurt his brain, but he bought the favorite when he was a child. Lang Weixian. Putting these two things together, it looks like Wu Zhen is saying goodbye. This is the most common behavior of a person before committing suicide."
"Change your thinking." Yi Fei said, "Is it possible that Wu Zhen knew that someone was going to kill him?"
Mingshu nodded, "Of course, Wu Zhen's interpersonal relationship has to be investigated."
Fang Yuanhang said: "Wu Zhen looked calm and unhurried in the surveillance on the 21st. The canteen owner also said that Wu Zhen was not panicked. If it was homicide, Wu Zhen knew that he was going to have an accident. Is it too calm? I still feel more like suicide."
"Whether it's suicide or homicide, based on the current clues, the probability that Wu Zhen is still alive is less than the probability that he is dead. There is no objection to this, right?" Mingshu asked.
Zhou Yuan was the first to nod, "Yeah!"
"The connection between the two cases is even greater." Mingshu held a pen that came from Xiao Yu'an, "Sha Chun killed him, but there are indications that Sha Chun may have planned this death himself. Wu Zhen The behavior before the disappearance has the possibility of suicide."
"Two diligent but unsuccessful people..." Yi Fei looked at Mingshu, "If it can be confirmed that Wu Zhen is dead, the two cases can be investigated together."
"The combined urban and rural areas to the east of Yilu Street and Yilu Street should be visited more intensively." Mingshu said, "Wu Zhen was there when he was last witnessed, and Yilu Street is completely in the trajectory of his daily life. Outside. There must be a purpose for him to go there."
Yi Fei looked embarrassed, "Xu Chun is still in Xinchuan Town, and Sha Chun's case can't be released. We may not be able to distinguish so many people now."
Mingshu thought for a while, "I'll go to the Xiao Bureau later to see if I can transfer some brothers from the Criminal Investigation Team."
Just when the serious crime team was busy with the two cases, the performing arts group gradually fell into the whirlpool of public opinion.
The newly constructed office space was excavated from the body of a woman whose hands were amputated. The victim was still an employee of the entertainment group, which was enough to become a topic of discussion.
Due to the control of news reports, the Sha Chun case was not disclosed in the mainstream media, only a police report without any details was issued. However, it didn't take long for rumors to spread from the performing arts group that Sha Chun, a guzheng player of the folk music club, was insulted in the department and suffered verbal attacks for several years. The reason was that Sha Chun was a member of the department. The few "non-related households" who are strict with themselves and often take the initiative to work overtime, offend the huge group of "related households", while the director and deputy director of the folk music club clearly knew Sha Chun's plight, but never offered a helping hand. You Sha Chun was bullied by colleagues.
The source of the rumors can no longer be tested. Although there are similar situations in other departments of the Performing Arts Group, Sha Chun is dead, and the deceased is a big one. For a while, not to mention the outside world, even within the group began to criticize the folk clubs.
Han Mingming's life is very bad, and his daily work can no longer be carried out. Every day, he is called by the senior management of the group and the human resources department to talk. And Ran He became the target of everyone in the group because of cheating in marriage. There is a gossip that his father-in-law has already negotiated with the group, and he will be fired soon.
At the same time, some supernatural rumors are also spreading wildly in the group.
No one dared to go to the pond anymore. I don't know who was the first to say that the place where Sha Chun was buried was cooler than other places in the wind. Others say that in the women's bathroom on the floor where the folk music club is located, when there is no one in the other compartments, the woman's cry can be heard, accompanied by the cry, and the low voice - am I not working hard enough
The vast majority of young people in the entertainment group are atheists, and all the rumors begin with "I heard from others".
It stands to reason that such rumors are not enough to intimidate people. But it is a fact that Sha Chun was targeted by the whole department, and it is also a fact that the body was buried in the group. On the day of the heavy rain, many people even saw the body in the pit.
The murder happened by my side, and my colleague whom I met a few days ago died in front of me today, which makes me terrified.
The folk music club panicked. Sun Jing passed Sha Chun's practice room, glanced inside, and fell to the ground in shock.
When everyone arrived, she was still crawling on the ground, pointing to the practice room and shouting, "She's inside! She's by the window! I see her!"
There was no one in the practice room, just a slender flower stand by the window, with a pot of cactus on top. Maybe the wind blew up the curtains, and the thorns of the cactus hooked the curtains. At first glance, it looked like a woman standing by the window.
The matter was passed on to other departments, and in the process of adding oil and vinegar, it became that Sun Jing saw Sha Chun's ghost.
The legends on the Internet are even more varied. There are also former employees of the entertainment group who came out and criticized the personnel system of the entertainment group, saying that Sha Chun's death is a matter of time. , and also said that Sha Chun should die in the performing arts group, so that those who have done evil there will never be disturbed!
In the rumors, Ran He, who betrayed his pregnant wife, lost his job, and was in constant panic because of the so-called "Sha Chun ghost", jumped out of the window of Sha Chun's practice room and died on the spot on the day he was fired.