"Wu Zhen went to Shanxiang Street and Suzheng Street many times before and after the Spring Festival. Huang Muquan disappeared during the Spring Festival. He didn't have his own footprints at home, but Wu Zhen's footprints." Mingshu received Xiao Yuan at the intersection of Shanxiang Street. , The two walked towards Kanzi Nine Alley together in the dark, "Huang Muquan is most likely the scapegoat that the 'professor' found for him. Brother, I said that I based my inferences on clues. If there are any contradictions, you bring them up."
Xiao Yuan nodded, "Yes."
"Wu Zhen committed suicide by taking sodium cyanide. Sha Chun didn't do it himself. Maybe he didn't even see the whole process of Wu Zhen's death with his own eyes. He just used cement to hide Wu Zhen's body. It's very possible that Wu Zhen didn't kill himself. Before his death, a 'domino' was used to help dispose of and hide the corpse." Mingshu said, "Huang Muquan is the substitute chosen by the 'Professor' for himself, and the 'Professor' wants to convince Wu Zhen that the corpse in front of him is The 'Professor' himself. It can be seen from the later development that Wu Zhen really believes in it. To do this, the 'Professor' can only kill Huang Mouquan in advance and disguise him as himself. Then, Wu Zhen According to the agreement between the two, Zhen went somewhere to dispose of the corpse. This could explain why the Huang family only had Wu Zhen's footsteps—after killing Huang Muquan, the 'professor' had already sent himself and Huang Muquan's All traces have been removed."
"Two questions." Xiao Yu'an said, "Is 'Professor' very similar to Huang Mouquan? Why did 'Professor' choose to work in Huang's house?"
Mingshu said: "It doesn't have to be very similar, as long as the 'professor' and Huang Mouquan's body, face, and hairstyle are similar, and then through disguise, it can completely achieve the effect of being fake. More importantly, Wu Zhen must have been very nervous at the time. When people are extremely nervous, their discernment and concentration will be reduced. One more thing, would Wu Zhen be willing to seriously look at a dead person's face?"
Xiao Yuan stopped in the alley, "The faces are not necessarily similar, but the body shape and age should be similar. If so, can we use Huang Mouquan as the prototype, in the Medical University, Guangye Hospital, Jiulin Psychological Clinic and nearby. to investigate?"
Mingshu lowered his head and didn't speak for about half a minute.
"The facial features of Huang Mouquan and the 'professor' may also be completely different." Xiao Yuan added: "Assuming that the 'professor' has an agreement with Wu Zhen, such as telling Wu Zhen in advance that he is a loser and has no face to see his parents— The reason can be made up by him, Wu Zhen has been bewitched by him to join this death game, so naturally he will believe his words of 'faceless to see his family'."
Mingshu said: "Then what the 'professor' conveyed to Wu Zhen was that he was going to commit suicide at 4-1, Building 4, Kanzi Nine Alley. It is likely that sodium cyanide was used for suicide. Before his death, the 'professor' would His face was covered and Wu Zhen was not allowed to reveal it. Wu Zhen went to the vicinity of Shanxiang Street many times just to familiarize himself with the route so that he could dispose of the corpse."
Ming Shu was silent for a few seconds after speaking, then shook his head, "But didn't Wu Zhen ever wonder why the 'Professor' died in such a place? And I can't think of why the Huang family would be the first scene to commit a crime here, and then It would be too risky for Wu Zhen to take the body away for disposal."
Xiao Yu'an said: "Since the 'professor' has chosen this way, it means that it is easier for him to do it at Huang Muquan's house."
Mingshu looked at Xiao Yuan's eyes and thought about the reason.
"There is no large area of invisible blood in the room, and there is no trace of fighting - the latter may have been there, but it was disposed of, but I don't think they fought." Xiao Yuan looked up at the dark building, "The sound insulation here The conditions are very bad, if there is a fight in any household, most of the neighbors can hear it, even during the Spring Festival."
"The door lock has not been broken, so the 'professor' knocked on the door to enter the Huang's house?" Mingshu said, "That's not right..."
Xiao Yuan asked, "What do you think is wrong?"
"Huang Mouquan is the 'Professor' lock-in stand-in, isn't that right?" Mingshu said, "He is the most suitable person the 'Professor' found after searching for a long time in Dongye City. But the 'Professor' knows him, he I don't know the 'Professor'. Why did he invite the 'Professor' to his house?"
"How can you be sure that Huang Muquan doesn't know 'Professor'?" Xiao Yuan raised his eyebrows halfway, "There are eight bowls and bowls in the refrigerator, those who save will keep the unfinished meals and wait for the next meal. Eat, but eight bowls and bowls are too many for a single person?"
Mingshu reacted at once, "That's not Huang Muquan's leftovers, but a dish prepared in advance to entertain guests?"
Xiao Yu'an said: "The 'Professor' is the guest. They not only know each other, but also have a relationship to eat together during the Spring Festival. Therefore, for the 'Professor', it is more important to do something to Huang Muquan at Huang's house than to do it somewhere outside. It's convenient, anyway, there will be Wu Zhen to take care of the aftermath for him."
Mingshu clenched his right fist and slammed it heavily on the palm of his left hand, "Then Huang Mouquan's interpersonal relationship will be interesting!"
Huang Muquan, 53 years old, from Hulu Town, Dongye City, divorced his wife more than ten years ago and came to Dongye City to live in a house that his late daughter Huang Dongyan bought at a low price during her lifetime.
Huang Mouquan's ex-wife Kang Guohua still lives in Hulu Town with her husband Zhu Qiang.
Compared with Huang Mouquan's residence in Dongye City, Kang Guohua's home is much more spacious, and his condition is not comparable to that of a pentacular old man who is struggling to make a living in a big city.
Knowing that Huang Muquan had been missing for half a year, Kang Guohua's reaction was flat, "If you are missing, it is none of my business. It has been many years since Huang Muquan and I divorced. I have a new family and I have long since broken up with him. Contact, you came all the way to check on me, why don't you check his current friends."
Xu Chun said, "You misunderstood. I'm not here to investigate you, I just want to get to know Huang Mouquan with you. After all, you are his ex-wife, and the information you provided will help us solve the case."
Kang Guohua shook his head, "I only know Huang Mouquan more than ten years ago. After so many years, I don't even remember what he looked like. You should really find his friends in the city."
"But as far as I know, Huang Muquan has no friends." Xu Chun said.
Kang Guohua widened his eyes in surprise.
"Huang Muquan has been missing for half a year, and no one called the police for him." Xu Chun said, "The clues around him are really limited, so I have to come to disturb you."
Kang Guohua touched his fingers together and whispered, "How could this happen?"
"You think it's strange that he doesn't have friends in Dongye City?" Xu Chun asked.
Kang Guohua hesitated for a while, "Huang Muquan is a person with a good personality. If someone treats him well, he will give back 100%. Before we divorced, he had many friends in the county. I didn't expect..."
Xu Chun said, "Mind if I ask, what is the reason for your divorce?"
It was about time that the pain had healed, and Kang Guohua's face didn't look too sad. After a few minutes, she sighed deeply, "Because of our daughter."
The daughter of Kang Guohua and Huang Muquan, Huang Dongyan, left her hometown at the age of 16 to work in Dongye City.
Dongye City is the closest big city to Hulu Town. Huang Dongyan chose Dongye not because of the proximity, but because he romantically believed that there was also a word "winter" in his name, which was his fate with Dongye City. .
But the romantic girl did not harvest romance in Dongye City. She has no education, and it is not easy to find a job in a big city. She has been working diligently. At that time, the housing price in Dongye City had not skyrocketed. At the age of 20, she used her own savings and the 50,000 yuan supported by her parents. Bought an old house at a low price from someone else.
That house is No. 4, 4-1, Kanzi Nine Lane.
In the same year, Huang Dongyan was robbed after night shift, was shot nine times, and died in an alley three streets away from home.
The murderer was quickly caught. He was an old man who had just been released from prison. He went crazy and killed because he couldn't adapt to the society after returning to society.
The old man was sentenced to death. In that age of underdeveloped Internet, he was quickly forgotten by people.
But the Huang family was destroyed.
At that time, both Huang Muquan and Kang Guohua were 40 years old, and it was difficult for them to have children again. Kang Guohua washed his face with tears all day, and Huang Muquan went to Dongye City many times and proposed to leave Hulu Town and live in Dongye City.
"Are you crazy?" Kang Guohua asked, "We've been farming for half our lives, how can we live in a big city?"
Huang Muquan insisted on moving to Dongye, insisting on living in the old house left by his daughter, saying that only in this way can he feel the existence of his daughter.
Kang Guohua was helpless and eventually parted ways with Huang Muquan.
"I don't know how he has lived these years." Kang Guohua lowered his head, "but he has no friends, which is something I didn't expect."
Xu Chun came to Hulu County with Mingshu's order. Although the Huang family's experience was embarrassing, he had to continue to ask: "You said that before Huang Dongyan's accident, Huang Muquan had a good character and many friends. Among your friends, is there anyone who came to Dongye City later?"
After telling what happened to her daughter, Kang Guohua's eyes were already red.
She thought for a long time and nodded, "There are two people."
Cao Furen, 60 years old, moved his family to Dongye City 7 years ago and now opens a breakfast restaurant in Xicheng District.
Wang Zhong, 55 years old, his wife died of illness, and his son and daughter-in-law took him to Dongye three years ago to enjoy his old age.
"No." Mingshu said, "Neither of these two people can be 'professor'."
"You tell Xu Chun, it doesn't have to be limited to Huang Mouquan's old friends. Didn't Huang Mouquan's ex-wife say that Huang Mouquan is essentially a person who likes to make friends. If there is a fellow who appears in Huang Mouquan In front of him, Huang Muquan should treat him with courtesy." Xiao Yuan said: "Anyone who leaves Hulu Town and lives in Dongye City, who are around forty or fifty years old, may be the person we are looking for."
Xu Chun and other field team members went back and forth in Hulu Town, and finally handed a list to Mingshu.
Including Cao Fu and Wang Zhong, there are nine people from Hulu Town who meet the age and gender requirements currently living in Dongye City.
On the other hand, Yi Fei inquired at Guangye Hospital that a security guard named "Hao Lu" from Jiulin Psychological Clinic came to Dongye City a few years ago and is now 48 years old.
And among the nine people that Xu Chun found, Hao Lu happened to be there!
Ming Shu immediately ordered, "Find him immediately!"
There are many ginkgo trees in Guangye Hospital. In the early autumn, some ginkgo leaves have turned yellow, and when the wind blows, they will rustle down.
This was originally a rare sight, but the atmosphere at Jiulin Psychological Clinic was quite tense.
In the security rest room, the two uncles in security uniforms looked at each other, and one of them said, "Hao, something happened at Hao Lu's house. I asked for leave early and went back. I was assigned to work for him."
Yi Fei immediately asked, "Where does Hao Lu live?"
"Right here, near here..."
Hao Lu rented and lived in the community next to the Medical University. The one-bedroom, one-bedroom house was cleaned extremely cleanly, as if no one had lived there before.
Mingshu squatted in the corner, pushed open the closet door, and picked up a piece of mahjong inside.
"Seven barrels?" Yi Fei said, "Hao Lu has a hobby of playing mahjong?"
Mingshu said: "Mahjong is put together and then pushed down, what is it?"
"Isn't that a simple domino?" Yi Fei gritted his teeth, "Hao Lu absconded in fear of crime?"
Jiulin's logistics manager flipped through his work log and said, "Hao Lu asked for leave as soon as the medical school started. Look, it's September 3rd."
Mingshu took the work log and frowned.
Sha Chun was killed in the early morning of August 24, three days after the police began investigating the case, and Hao Lu left quietly in early September, and his whereabouts are unknown now.
Xu Chun has determined that Hao Lu has never been married, his parents are deceased, and he has no relatives in Hu Luzhen.
Why did Hao Lu leave suddenly? Is it because of knowing that the game of "dominoes" has failed? Or do you know that the police will find you one day, so you run away early
The suspect was finally locked in the thread, but the suspect left long ago, which is undoubtedly a big blow.
Fang Yuanhang scolded several times in succession, "Fuck me", Ming Shu glared at him, "You have found a breakthrough, why are you still frustrated?"
"It's still one step late." Fang Yuanhang shook his head, "If we go faster, we can immediately arrest him for questioning."
"We were not one step late, we were many steps late." Mingshu actually laughed, "He escaped on September 3, where did we find out then? No matter how fast we are, there is no way to stop him."
"but… "
"But what but? Is it the difficulty of digging out the 'professor' from Sha Chun's case, or the difficulty of finding a missing security guard?"
Fang Yuanhang said, "Of course it's difficult to dig out the 'professor', tsk, he's hiding too deep!"
"It's good to know." Mingshu patted his apprentice's shoulder, "Hao Lu left Jiulin on September 3, and it is hard to say whether he is still in Dongye City. You go to assist the technical investigation of Hao Lu's whereabouts after No. 3. He hasn't exposed it yet, and he knows it himself, so he won't pay that much attention to surveillance."
After speaking, Mingshu saw a familiar figure.
Luo Yi.
Even in the face of the large number of police officers, Luo Yi remained calm, nodded slightly, and walked into his office, seemingly indifferent to what happened here.
Yi Fei came over, "Is Luo Yi really having nothing to do with this case?"
Mingshu was silent for a while, "I'll go find Long Tianhao."
Long Tianhao looked at Hao Lu's photo, "This is not the one who spoke to me."
Mingshu said, "Look carefully."
"Really not!" After Sha Chun's case, Long Tianhao, like Yu Xiaocheng, figured it out, gave up torturing his own hands, admitted that he was not talented in e-sports, and was already looking for a job seriously. Mingshu saved his life, and he was very grateful to Mingshu. He desperately hoped to find the person who instigated him to "Jia Bailu", to help Mingshu, and eagerly said: "You have found the wrong person. , I'm not blind, I'm definitely not this person."
"As we judged before, when we went to see Long Tianhao, the 'professor' changed his mind and wore clothes that scholars often wear." The investigation progress of the case has been summarized to Xiao Yu'an, he looked at Mingshu: " I now have another guess—Hao Lu may have committed suicide."
Mingshu's heart tightened, "Hao Lu's behavior of running away early shows that he thinks the police may find him in the future, and he doesn't want to pay for what he did. If he commits suicide, it's not for him. Are you responsible for the crime? Since you chose to die, why did you flee soon after the Sha Chun case?"
"Let's see what kind of person Hao Lu is." Xiao Yuan pointed out a photo of Hao Lu, which was a work photo provided by Jiulin Psychological Clinic, taken at the beginning of this year.
"In the early years, I worked as a farmer in Hulu Town, which is the same as Huang Muquan. I went to Dongye City a few years ago. The exact year is to be investigated, and what he was doing before he became a security guard in Jiulin is also to be investigated." Xiao Yu'an said: "From last year, no, maybe earlier, he started experimenting with 'hard-working and mediocre' people. This year, the experiment worked once, but failed the second time because of someone else's meddling. Such a lunatic, now Missing, the odds of escaping and suicide are actually 50/50."
Mingshu thought for a long time, "I don't want him to commit suicide, I want to arrest him."
"I hope so too, but the worst may be I have to bring it up." Xiao Yu'an said.
Mingshu walked behind Xiao Yu'an and looked at the display, "What made a farmer in his early years become a 'professor' who experimented with human life as soon as he arrived in Dongye City?"
Xiao Yu'an suddenly asked, "Is Xu Chun still in Hulu Town?"
Mingshu nodded, "Yes."
"The technical investigator has not tracked Hao Lu's whereabouts yet. He may still be hiding in a corner of Dongye City, or he may have already left." Xiao Yu'an said, "From the perspective of the perpetrator, Hao Lu stayed in Dongye. It is more likely to secretly observe the police's investigation progress and then wait for an opportunity. But another possibility cannot be ruled out—he is no longer in Dongye City. If he is not in Dongye City, where would he most likely go? ?"
"Go home? Hao Lu is in Hulu Town?" Mingshu said, "But Xu Chun hasn't been to Hao Lu's previous home, and the building has long been empty."
Xiao Yu'an said: "Of course Hao Lu will not let others find him. He has been away from his hometown for many years and encounters difficult things outside. Will he want to go back to his hometown to take a look?"
Mingshu substitutes himself, "I probably don't want to."
"You haven't reached that age yet." Xiao Yuan made a decision, "Go to Hulu Town in person."
Mingshu raised his eyes, "Me?"
"Yes, you." Xiao Yuan had a special charm when he gave the order, "Maybe I made a mistake, Hao Lu is not in Hulu Town, but Hao Lu's past is worth investigating. Why is he still single? Become so crazy? If you figure out these problems, even if you can't find Hao Lu in Hulu Town, you will definitely provide directions for follow-up investigations."
Mingshu stood there for a moment, his eyes serious and bright, "Yes, Bureau Xiao!"
After Mingshu left, Xiao Yuan turned his eyes back to the display screen, and then brought up the photo of Qin Guosheng, a suicide lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, Medical University.
Looking closely at the facial features and face shape of these two people, there are many similarities.