When Shen Changan arrived at the place Director Du said, he was surrounded by some old men and ladies who were watching the fun. When he crossed the cordon, he heard the uncles and aunts discussing the dead in the house.
"This old head Li is really pitiful. His only child passed away more than ten years ago. Everyone around him took care of him, and no one found out when he died."
"Alas, it was the community staff who came to the house to check and found something was wrong, so they called the police."
"Fortunately, it's winter. If it's summer, there will be no one at home for several days. Wouldn't it be smelly."
"Let's say a few words less, if you make people unhappy, be careful to come to you in the middle of the night."
"Bah, bah, what nonsense, I haven't hurt him."
Shen Changan looked back at these people watching the fun. Their emotions were very complicated. They had both fear of death and indifference to life. .
The deceased's house was on the first floor. Shen Changan walked to the door and saw that there were police officers and forensic doctors in the house, so he did not go in to disturb their work.
"The time of death was about nine o'clock the night before yesterday." The forensic doctor put away the tools and turned to Yao Huailin who was guarding the room. "Captain Yao, judging from the body of the deceased, the deceased should have died of a heart attack. There is no trace of human injury."
"It's hard work." Yao Huailin sighed and waved his colleagues to put the body of the deceased into the body bag. Although Wuming City is not big, it is not a special case for such a lonely old man to die silently because there is no one to take care of him.
There is a group photo of a family of three in this house, but there are only traces of one person's life. It can be seen that the deceased has lived alone for a long time. Fortunately, the temperature has been low recently, and even if the body of the deceased was discovered after thirty or forty hours, the corruption was not too obvious.
There are also many carved tools and some beautifully carved root carvings in the room. He can probably guess what the old man does for a living, but he is a little embarrassed by dying so silently.
Lighting the cigarette and taking a deep breath, Yao Huailin suppressed the sympathy in his heart. As a police officer, the most taboo thing is to be too emotional. Colleagues carried the body out, and he reminded in a low voice, "Everyone's movements are gentle, so that the elderly can walk with dignity."
Breathing out the smoke in his mouth, he saw Shen Changan standing outside the door. He took out a mask from his coat pocket and threw it to Shen Changan, "Put it on."
Shen Changan put on a mask and asked, "Can I come in?"
"Come in, it's not the scene of the murder." Yao Huailin knew that this kind of thing happened, and the civil service department also had to create a file and record it into the work system, so he gave him the general situation: "The deceased was sixty-seven years old, male, and his occupation was a root carver. Wife and no children, it was a community worker who found the deceased, and the time of death was around nine o'clock the night before yesterday, not homicide."
Root Carver
Shen Changan paused when he stepped into the door, and had a bad premonition in his heart. This hunch became reality when he saw the pictures on the wall.
Standing in this somewhat deserted room, Shen Changan was silent for a moment: "You mean, the time of his death was around nine o'clock the night before yesterday?"
"Yes, like this kind of normal death, there is no external interference at the scene. It is more accurate to determine the time of death of the deceased." Yao Huailin saw Shen Changan's expression was different, "What's the matter, you suspect the cause of his death?"
"No." Shen Changan shook his head slowly, looking at the photo of a family of three hanging on the wall, suddenly felt a little sad. When he saw the owner the night before, it was already after ten o'clock at night. He said he had already slept, but he thought of the root carving he still owed him, so he rushed over.
When dying, he is thinking about what the customer wants, and if he turns into a ghost, he has to hand it over to him. Is this kind of persistence the sincerity of the owner or the pursuit of root carving
The shop owner told him that if he couldn't find his apprentice, it would be fine. Did he really let it go, or did he have to let it go because of death
Shen Changan felt uncomfortable. He was sad because of the lonely death of the shop owner, and because his craftsmanship was not inherited, he felt sad for himself.
He felt that he was just like this old man. He had no relatives and no worries. If he died suddenly in the middle of the night, no one would find out.
"Shen Changan, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Shen Changan staring at the photo in a daze, Yao Huailin patted his back, "Don't look, let's go."
"Yao team." As soon as the two walked to the door, a police officer walked in front of Yao Huailin, "We visited the store near the store opened by the deceased before his death, and an employee of a fast food restaurant told me that after ten o'clock the night before, there were A young man came out of the shop of the dead and bought a glass of milk from him."
Yao Huailin saw a glass of milk with a straw in the evidence bag held by the police officer.
"We checked in the deceased's store, and there was no sign of a fight at the scene, but we found in the deceased's bank account that at 10:22 that night, a sum of money was transferred through WeChat and entered the deceased's account."
Yao Huailin faintly felt that something was wrong, and he quickly asked, "Did you find out who was the person who transferred the money?"
"It's a person named Shen..."
"It's me." Shen Changan sighed, took off his mask and said, "I bought a root carving in that store two days ago. Since the root carving was still a little flawed, the boss asked me to wait a day before going there to get it. The night before yesterday At about ten o'clock, I received a call from the boss, saying that the root carving has been completed, and if I want it in a hurry, I can go to the store to pick it up that night, so I went."
"On such a cold day, you still ran out to get a carving at ten o'clock in the evening?" Yao Huailin didn't want to doubt Shen Changan at all, but this fact was somewhat inexplicable, "I thought it was only women who could make men so active, or to prepare them for women. Gift."
Speaking of this, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at Shen Changan: "Looking at your appearance, you don't look like a man with a girlfriend."
Shen Changan: "It's okay to discuss the case, but there's no need for personal attacks."
"Hey, who attacked you personally?" Yao Huailin glanced at the time, "Let's go, brother, according to the rules, you have to go to the bureau with me. In addition, this matter involves the issue of the deceased, after the matter is clarified , you may need to sign some formalities, and you ask your family to run for help."
Shen Changan, who was about to follow Yao Huailin into the police car, had a meal: "Can anyone else do it?"
"Of course others can, but in today's society, who would want to come to the police station for someone who has no relatives and no reason? Wuming City is such a big place, and what things are spread in a mess after a few words. The smaller the place, the more important it is. You Find someone you can trust."
Shen Changan was silent, he got into the car without saying a word, and didn't forget to fasten his seat belt.
"Don't be nervous. We won't let a bad person go, but we will never wrong a good person. It's just a matter of routine. Just make it clear." Yao Huailin saw that he suddenly stopped talking and thought he was worried about entering the police station. "The cause of death of the deceased, the forensic doctor has experienced clearly, don't worry."
"I'm not worried about this." Shen Changan rubbed his nose and sighed, "I'm worried, I'm a lonely man, and I can't open my mouth to trouble others for this kind of thing."
Lonely
Yao Huailin suddenly remembered that Shen Changan was a key university talent introduced by the city, and there was nothing in the column about relatives in the archives. He instantly thought of a certain possibility. For a while, he regretted that he owed his words, and he would say whatever he said.
Just when Yao Huailin wanted to give himself a mouthful, Shen Changan's cell phone rang.
"Dao Nian?" Shen Changan answered the phone.
"When will you be back?" Daonian looked out the window, "The rain has stopped."
Shen Changan suddenly remembered that he had said in the morning that when the rain stopped, he would go out for a walk: "I have encountered some trouble here, and I may not be able to come back at noon."
"What's the trouble?" Daonian, who was still lazily in his wheelchair, stood up and reached out to summon a mirror to see what happened to Shen Changan.
"I'm... in the game."
The hand that summoned the mirror stopped, and Daonian tried his best to soften his tone: "Don't panic, I'll come right over."
"I'm not panicking." Shen Changan, who was still empty in his heart at first, felt as if he had been stuffed into a big grapefruit after hearing Daonian "come here right away".
"Well." Shen Changan rubbed his nose, "I didn't panic."
Yao Huailin saw that after Shen Changan hung up the phone, all the sadness and loneliness were gone, and replaced by a bright smile with a signature, and couldn't help but feel a little bitter: "What's the matter, you won the tens of millions of jackpots?"
"No, someone has come to pick me up." Shen Changan raised his eyebrows, "If you have any questions, you can start asking them in the car, and it will save a lot of time later."
"That won't work. We must strictly abide by the rules and regulations when we ask questions." Yao Huailin wanted to say that there was something to be happy about when someone came to pick him up, but when he thought of Shen Changan's words of "one family and a few people", the ridicule couldn't be said.
The evidence has been handed over to the relevant departments first. Soon after Shen Changan arrived at the police station, the test results came out. The glass of milk only had the fingerprints of Shen Changan and the clerk of the fast food restaurant, and no fingerprints of the deceased were left.
In addition, the surveillance camera on the side of the road near the store captured a scene that puzzled the police. They saw that at about 9:40 in the evening, an old man who was suspected of being deceased opened the door of the store. About half an hour later, Shen Changan entered the store, and a few minutes later, Shen Changan quickly walked to the opposite side. The fast food restaurant bought a glass of milk.
It was the cup of milk that no one had touched in the root carving shop.
A few minutes later, Shen Changan came out of the store. The lights of the Gendiao Store went out shortly after he left, but the old man who opened the store never came out of the store.
"This... is too evil." The policeman who checked the monitor whispered, "It's like the deceased deliberately waited for him to pick up the goods, and when he finished picking up the goods, his wish was over."
Although the time of Shen Changan's appearance that night was very suspicious, other than this, he did not have any motive or suspicion for committing the crime. More importantly, the owner of the shop died at home, and the cause of death was not homicide, so he did not become a suspect. .
After Yao Huailin and Team Li listened to Shen Changan's explanation, he suddenly remembered what Shen Changan had not known about when he broke into a ghost nest in a mountain spring and valley not long ago, and looked at Shen Changan with some sympathy in his eyes.
It's hell but you don't know it
Yao Huailin asked Shen Changan to sign the transcript, and reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Dude, it's not easy for you." Not only did he see a ghost, but he also bought hot milk for the ghost and paid the balance. can be encountered.
"Captain Li, Team Yao." A police officer knocked on the door and entered, looking at Shen Changan with a complicated look, "Mr. Shen's friend has come to pick him up."
"Okay." Yao Huailin raised his chin towards Shen Changan, "Let's go, in the future you..."
Let's meet some ghosts.
Everything was silent, Yao Huailin patted Shen Changan on the shoulder again.
When Shen Changan heard that Dao Nian was over, he didn't have the heart to guess what Yao Huailin meant. He walked out of the interrogation room and found that many people in the police station were looking at him. He touched his face suspiciously. The police station arrested him recently. There are few suspects, why are they all staring at him
"What's the matter with you all?" Yao Huailin was walking behind Shen Chang'an, and seeing this scene was a little baffling.
"Yao team." A police officer whispered, "You will know when you go out to meet."
Yao Huailin went out to take a look, and saw a dozen men in suits crowding the office, he couldn't help but sigh: "This room is full of people, are they preparing to rob the court?"
"Comrade police, you misunderstood. We are Mr. Shen's lawyer team and will provide all legal assistance to Mr. Shen wholeheartedly." A man closest to him pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose with a gentle smile.
"Dao Nian." Shen Changan's eyes passed through many men in suits and fell on Dao Nian behind them. Then, with a snort, he got into his side.
Dao Nian held his hand lightly and looked at Yao Huailin: "What's going on?"
The author has something to say: Protect the short. Dao Nian: Come on, who bullied my human cubs