Hexiang County, Wancui Village.
At the beginning of autumn, there is a strong fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus and the smoke of burning coal in the air.
"Wu's family, they have long since moved." 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, "Moving 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 currently only Wu Tong lives in Dongye City. Since her parents are not in Wancui Village, where did they go
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 out?"
"I know, we're always envious!" The village cadre laughed and exhaled. "They have a relative who is a boss in a big city, and they say they want to help them work. Hey, it's good in the city, a month. You can earn thousands of dollars easily! Before they leave, they also treat us to a water table!"
Working for relatives in the city? wrong!
Xu Chun responded very quickly—Wu Tong did ask a distant relative Liang Lu to help with the job in Dongye City, but Liang Lu was not a big boss, so it was impossible to ask the Wu family to work for him, and Wu Tong’s parents Wu Shoulian , Wang Aixia is not with Wu Tong now.
There is only one possibility, something happened to the Wu family.
Xu Chun hurriedly asked the village cadres to call the village chief, and then asked the team members to go from house to house to inquire about the situation of Wu's family, and learned an astonishing fact - Wu Tong, who is now in Dongye City, is not the real Wu Tong, but the real Wu Tong. Tong died at the age of seven.
The Wu family has been a farmer for generations. Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia could not have children when they were young, and they did not give birth to Wu Tong, the real Wu Tong, until they were almost forty years old.
Wu Tong is a premature baby, and his mother is an elderly mother, Wu Tong has been frail and sick from birth.
Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia were close to 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 his life" for Wu Tong.
The so-called "life extension" is to raise the girl as an animal, her name is also Wu Tong, as the shadow of the real Wu Tong. Once Wu Tong has any illness, Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia will ask fortune-tellers to "do it" and put them together. The pain was transferred to Shadow.
Accepting the shadow of the pain must be painful, and only when the shadow is painful can the transfer of the pain be successful.
When "practice", the fortune teller often hangs the girl upside down, stabs the girl with a needle, whips it with a whip, and even cuts the girl with a knife.
The more the girl cried, the more the fortune teller told Wu and Wang, "Xie Xun 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 chained and tied in the yard of Wu's house, living a life no different from 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 of the Wu family.
According to the fortune teller, the girl already has a strand of Wu Tong's soul on her body. It is better for the Wu family to keep raising the girl and treat the girl as Wu Tong.
Under the great pain of losing his daughter, 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 management of household registration was quite backward. The girl was originally a black household. 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 under investigation, and communicated with Mingshu.
"The Wu family has no relatives in the city that they can rely on, so what 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 did not leave Wancui Village at all, they are 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 has been abused since she was four years old, and was forced to become a dead man at the age of seven. She's a substitute. If I were her, I don't know how deep my hatred for the Wu family is. "
Mingshu leaned against the wall and paused for a few seconds, "I don't know how twisted my mind is."
"Then I'll be here for the time being with the Hexiang County Public Security Bureau to investigate the case." Xu Chun said, "I'll report to you as soon as there is any progress."
Mingshu said, "It's hard work."
Wu Tong sat in the interrogation room and hummed a song softly. She did have a sweet face. When she turned her head to look at people, it was easy for soft-hearted people to pity her.
Mingshu said, "Sha Chun and Wu Tong are very similar, aren't they?"
The singing stopped abruptly, and Wu Tong stood still, looking at Mingshu like a delicate white porcelain doll.
When Mingshu saw Wu Tong before, he thought Wu Tong was like something, but he couldn't think of an appropriate description.
Knowing what happened at 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 gleamed, and he repeated in a very strange tone, "Wu... Tong?"
Mingshu saw the doubt in Wu Tong's eyes. This doubt was different from her innocent and romantic disguise. It turned out to be real.
"I'm Wu Tong," she said.
"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 his hometown."
"But there is no one in your home's house."
"… "
After a moment of silence, Mingshu said, "This year's Spring Festival, the Wu family informed the neighbors that they were going to the city to seek refuge with their relatives. Why are you the only one here, where are your parents?"
"They..." Wu Tong said uneasy, "I don't know."
Mingshu said, "No, you know. No one knows your parents' whereabouts except you."
Wu Tong raised his chest fiercely, and the fierceness on his face turned hideous, "What exactly do you want to ask?"
Mingshu stared at Wu Tong with awe, and said loudly, "I ask you if you killed Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia, and whether you killed Sha Chun who is similar to the real Wu Tong!"
Wu Tong half-opened his mouth, and smiled strangely after half a minute, "I don't have it. I'm Wu Tong, I have an ID card, do you want to see it?"
Mingshu suddenly asked, "If I could find your biological parents, would you like to meet them?"
Wu Tong's smile froze, and her delicate face was shaking 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 evidence chain is not yet complete, and the investigation must continue.
Mingshu rushed to Wu Tong's residence again and noticed the long square carpet at the door of the bedroom again.
"The clothes Wu Tong wore when he committed the crime is the most important thing. There must be key information on it. Wu Tong disposed of them all, which is very troublesome." Xiao Man said, "But this is actually an indirect evidence."
Mingshu squatted down, put on gloves, and asked Xiao Man for a large evidence bag and put the carpet in it.
Wu Tong, Meng Xue, and Li Tianyue did not have the habit of going home to change their shoes. The living room was equivalent to a public area, and their slippers were all in their bedrooms.
"Take this carpet back for a 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. It was her negligence to deal with it together."
Xiao Man immediately understood, "The dirt attached to her shoes will fall on the carpet!"
Mingshu rushed to the Nancheng Branch non-stop and asked to adjust the road monitoring in the early morning of August 24th.
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, it is very likely that he hid in the entertainment group until dawn, and then took the bus or taxi back to Dongcheng District.
Every traffic stop is monitored, and Wu Tong will most likely not choose public transportation. Then every taxi and private car that drove by Nanye Avenue where the Performing Arts Group was located in the early morning might have Wu Tong on board.
It takes a lot of manpower to investigate this clue. The Nancheng District Branch offered to cooperate, and the reason is obvious without thinking. Xiao Yuan left the trouble of Chu Can in the serious crime team, and directly relieved the Nancheng District Branch of the burden.
On the other hand, the Hexiang County Public Security Bureau began an investigation into Wancui Village.
Xu Chun asked many villagers and confirmed that the Wu family held the water feast on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and when the water feast was held, both Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia were still alive.
"Actually, I didn't seem to see Wu Shoulian and his wife at all during the Spring Festival." Ou Chunxiang, who lives near Wu's house, said, "It was Wu Tong who came to my house and said that he was going to move, and invited us to her house for dinner."
"You didn't actually see Wu Shoulian and his wife on the day the Wu family invited you?" Xu Chun asked.
"I..." Ou Chunxiang scratched his head, "I can't remember, I should have met. They treat guests at their house, of course they are at home."
Many villagers responded similarly to Ou Chunxiang.
Xu Chun immediately thought of a possibility—Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia had already been killed when they held a banquet at Wu's house. Wu Tong spread the news about the family going to the city, and invited people to come to the house for dinner, just to create the illusion that Wu and Wang were still alive.
The Spring Festival is a very convenient time to do things. Every household has their own affairs to be busy with, so there is a table with flowing water, and the owner eats Western food. If someone asks where Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia are, they can use "prepare dishes later", "Drinking with Uncle Wang and Uncle Li" perfunctory.
"I also looked for Aixia that day. After all, I've been an old friend for many years, but I really didn't see anyone." Villager Chen Qicui said with a frown.
Xu Chun asked, "Then why do you think Wang Aixia was at home the day the Wu family invited guests?"
"I..." Chen Qicui thought about it for a long time, and finally said, "I heard Wu Tong calling her mother."
Xu Chun finally figured out the key.
People are easily influenced by the outside world and are easily confused by false appearances.
Wu Tong said that he would go to the city with his parents to seek refuge with wealthy relatives. The villagers believed it, and then went to Wu's house for a banquet. Although only Wu Tong was toasting and serving dishes in the yard, as long as Wu Tong shouted "Mom, chicken from time to time" Are you ready to stew?" and "Dad, the wine is gone", which can give a hint to those 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, and found traces of the murder case at Wu's house on the same day. There were many marks of slashing with knives on the floor of the living room, and a small amount of blood was visible in the gaps. reaction.
Captain Liu, who was in charge of the investigation, said to Xu Chun, "This is most likely the crime scene."
"There are so many marks of chopping and chopping, so it should be the corpse." Xu Chun recalled Wu Tong's innocent face and thought it was incredible, but when he thought about everything Wu Tong experienced in his childhood, he felt that it was not inexplicable.
Wu Tong just looks innocent, and there is no humanity at all in his heart.
It is precisely because there is no humanity that there is only an empty shell left, so when pretending to be a silly white 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 corpse was badly decomposed, but two complete corpses could be pieced together.
However, the forensic doctor said that judging from the decay of the leg, the murderer scraped off part of the flesh from the leg when dismembering the body.
It is not easy to identify the specific cause of death for the severely decomposed corpses. The forensic doctor can only preliminarily judge from the damage to the neck bones of the deceased that they are likely to have been strangled to death.
Xu Chun didn't understand a little, strangulation is not a simple matter, Wu Tong wanted to kill Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia, there were still many options, why did he choose to strangle
The cause of Sha Chun's death was also mechanical suffocation caused by strangulation.
Why is Wu Tong obsessed with strangulation
"Didn't you find the chain that bound Wu Tong in the yard of Wu's house?" After listening to Xu Chun's report, Ming Shu closed his eyes and thought for a while, "The real Wu Tong has been dead for so many years. Tong doesn't have to wear the chain for a long time. Why does the chain stay in Wu's house? Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia have no reason to keep the chain."
"Wu Tong?" Xu Chun said, "Wu Tong deliberately left the chain behind?"
"It's hard for outsiders to imagine the pain Wu Tong suffered in her childhood. She was chained and beaten with whips. The chains and whips are all her terrifying memories." Mingshu said, "It's also her hatred. Memory. She left the chain behind, perhaps to remind herself not to forget the hatred, not to forget the sins she suffered in the past, and one day, she will take revenge."
"I understand." Xu Chun was smoking a cigarette, his eyes narrowed in the smoke, "Wu Shoulian and his wife imprisoned her with iron chains, and she will use similar bars to kill them."
Mingshu said: "This can also explain why Sha Chun died of strangulation."
Xu Chun sighed for a long time, "How's your investigation going? I'll be right back."
Mingshu was still at the Nancheng District Branch, "Don't worry, the chain of evidence will be complete soon."
Xiao Man's observation ability is not as good as Mingshu'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 the location of Sha Chun's body. The soil is consistent.
Shortly after the appraisal report was released, the Nancheng District Branch found a BYD owner named "Yang Qiuyong" after intensive investigation.
Yang Qiuyong has been working in the "black car" business in Nancheng District all the year round. The interior of the car has been converted into a normal taxi, with protective barriers and surveillance cameras.
The camera recorded Wu Tong getting on and off the bus—at 5:49 a.m. on August 24, Wu Tong, wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue jeans, and a backpack, got into Yang Qiuyong’s car at the corner of the road surveillance and sat in the car. Right rear seat. At 6:27, Wu Tong got off at Xingzhao Road, Dongcheng District, paid cash and left.
Xingzhao Road is four kilometers away from Wu Tong's residence, and it is difficult for the police to find Xingzhao Road.
Mingshu came to Wu Tong again.
After Wu Tong's disguised innocence subsided, he looked even more beautiful. But that beauty was not at all alive, it seemed empty and pale.
"The police in Hexiang County have found your parents..." Mingshu paused and said, "The bodies of Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia have been found, and the Wu family has been identified as the first scene."
Wu Tong blinked, but did not speak.
"The cause of their death was mechanical suffocation. You completed your revenge with the chains they locked you back then." Mingshu's tone was gentle, unlike facing a murderer who carried three lives on his back, "Wu Tong, you are satisfied Yet?"
Wu Tong remained silent.
Mingshu looked at her for a while, "No, you didn't."
Wu Tong's expression finally changed a little, as if he wanted to speak, but did not open his mouth immediately.
"How can you be satisfied?" Mingshu said, "Before taking revenge on the person who caused the bad luck in your life."
Wu Tong's slender neck shrank slightly.
"You stay by your family's side, but you were suddenly stolen. Before the age of seven, you suffered inhuman torture. After the age of seven, although life is better, the real you has died. You used to be for that person. The shadow of 'Continuation of Life' will be a substitute for that person in the future." Mingshu said, "In your heart, the most hateful person is not the fortune teller, nor Wu Shoulian or Wang Aixia, but the real Wu Tong, right?"
Wu Tong took a deep breath, and then began to tremble.
Mingshu continued: "But she's 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 almost perfect, so 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, you can't leave come out."
Wu Tong lowered his head, pursed his lips, and said vague words.
"You got pleasure in the process of dismembering Wu and Wang, so you chopped chickens many times, as well as the stray dogs near your residence." Mingshu said: "They are all substitutes for the real Wu Tong. The pleasure of killing small animals is far inferior to that of human beings, so when you discover the secret of Sha Chun and Yu Xiaocheng, Sha Chun becomes your substitute."
Wu Tong finally said, "Yes, it was me who killed Wu Shoulian and Wang Aixia, and it was me who strangled Sha Chun."
After saying this, Wu Tong suddenly fell silent.
Mingshu waited for her next sentence.
For a long time, Wu Tong's brows and hearts beat indistinctly, and there was a strange light in his eyes, "You said you would help me find my parents. I confessed my guilt, I will explain everything, you really let me see them before I die. one side?"