Return to 1983 and be a detective

Xu Shan listened quietly to Qin Haixia's memories. It wasn't until she finished speaking that he asked, "Do you usually talk on the phone? Or do you write letters?"

"Of course we communicate through letters. How can we use something as expensive as a telephone? Besides, his handwriting is so good, I like to read his handwriting, it's like art."

"The longest letter he has ever written to you. How many words is it?"

"Did you say it was a love letter? There are not many words, but the meaning is very clear. It was a poem. The first time he wrote a poem, he wrote it on a cigarette paper shell. The poem was very short, but the love was very long.

I remember that when he gave me this poem, I didn’t know what to say. My heart was beating like a deer, and now I feel a little embarrassed when I think about it. "

"Can you recognize his handwriting?" Xu Shan asked tentatively with curiosity in his heart.

Qin Haixia seemed to be greatly insulted: "Of course, I read his handwriting the most, I can definitely tell it at a glance."

Xu Shan took out a copy of the suicide note, cut out the beginning and some explanations in the middle, and only asked Qin Haixia to identify it.

Qin Haixia frowned and looked at it again and again, and finally said a little uncertainly: "You want to say it's similar, it's really similar, but if you want to say whether it was written by Lao Ding, I don't think it looks like it was written by him."

Xu Shan was very confused: "Why?"

"Have you ever heard of a poem? The first line is called Geng Xin Wen Lao Geng Cheng. In fact, the words you showed me are like the words Lao Ding wrote when he was young, but they are different from the words he writes now. It's not the same. A person's calligraphy will definitely be related to his life perception and social experience..."

Qin Haixia is worthy of being a teacher, and she also teaches Chinese. The educated people of this era are still literate, unlike many people in later generations who claim to be literate and only make insults about others.When she said this, Xu Shan's eyes lit up.

It makes sense. It seems that this conversation is quite valuable.

At this time, Qin Haixia said again: "And Lao Ding's writing style is different from this paragraph. There are some differences in the choice of words and sentences. For example, he prefers straightforward narratives, and his emotions are quite sincere when writing poems. He's very good at using idioms. But this piece of writing is a bit formal. You see, it uses a lot of idioms. It doesn't seem like he wrote it at all."

Literary words?

Xu Shan suddenly thought of the confessions made by those guys in the circus case, which seemed to be docile and inconsistent with their identities.

Of course, he didn't think that the circus case had anything to do with Ding Zeren's suicide note. It was just an idea that popped into his mind. Could it be that the guy who wrote the suicide note for Lao Ding was a conservative guy who liked to write essays?

Is there such a guy?

After chatting with Qin Haixia for a while, Xu Shan looked at his watch and saw that it was noon before he knew it. He said goodbye to Qin Haixia and went directly back to Changji Public Security Bureau.

After returning to the Public Security Bureau, he couldn't wait to send a fax to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.

These days, both copying technology and fax technology have actually existed in China for a long time, but they have always been regarded as high technologies. For example, copying technology was not independently developed and manufactured by a company in Shanghai until the late 70s. The first civilian-use electrostatic copier. Due to its high cost, large size, and limited application scenarios, Xu Shan specially asked Cao Ling to get it to the copier factory before coming to Changji this time, and directly use the copier produced by the factory. Copies of many suicide notes from people in Dingze were made.

He also asked Cao Ling to save a few copies in case of emergency.

Fax technology developed earlier in our country. It was introduced to our country as early as the 30s, and we independently developed it in the 70s.At that time, this fax technology was mainly used to fax newspapers. The latest newspapers were faxed to various places, and then reprinted and distributed to various places.

It was not until the 80s that telephone faxes began to be used in many places in the country. The public security system was one of the earliest places to use faxes. Just like the wanted order for the two Northeastern Wolfs, it was a fax sent directly by the ministry. Each public security bureau will then reprint and post it.

Xu Shan sent a fax to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau through the Changji Public Security Bureau. The content of the fax was a letter written by Ding Zeren to Qin Haixia. He chose the letter with the latest date and the largest number of words and sent it to Zhang Xing in Shanghai. I hope he can research something from the perspective of graphology.

Faxes are sent very slowly these days. Cars and horses are slow, days are slow, and faxes are even slower. It is so slow that Xu Shan is extremely anxious to wait, but he has to wait. After all, no matter how slow it is, it is better than sending these materials to Shanghai in person. It's much faster.

In the 80s, fax machines were divided into 180-rpm, 360-rpm, and 360-rpm. Today's telephone fax machines are already the most advanced with [-]-rpm, but if you want to finish sending a letter, you still need to wait for two hours.

Xu Shan made tea on the side and sat there quietly waiting for the fax machine to start eating paper at a snail's speed. It wasn't until the cup of tea completely lost its flavor that the fax machine stopped working and finally sent the letter. Passed out.

After a while, a call came from Shanghai, and it was Zhang Xing: "Comrade Xu Shan, after my comparative research, I found that the handwriting on this suicide note and this letter should be written by the same person. His writing habits Consistent..."

Hearing this conclusion, Xu Shan was stunned. He was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out: "What? You're not kidding, are you?"

Zhang Xing was obviously unhappy: "Do you think I'm so unprofessional? How could I joke about the case?"

"So this was really written by one person?"

Xu Shan couldn't believe this was true.

But he still chose to believe Zhang Xing's conclusion. Even though Qin Haixia said that the two could not be written by the same person, this was just the statement of a relative. Although she was probably the most familiar with Ding Zeren's handwriting, She always looks at problems with a touch of emotional factors, and is not able to be objective and impartial.

Just like there are many cases in later generations, it is clear that the deceased committed suicide, but the family members refuse to admit it and must find a murderer for their deceased relatives.There are also situations where it is obvious that the DNA test has confirmed that the dead child is their child, but the family members refuse to admit this test. They feel that their child is not dead, and they insist on looking for their child while working.

This seemingly absurd case, which makes people very bitter and sympathetic, is actually because when we cannot accept reality, we often deny reality and escape from reality, otherwise our hearts are likely to collapse.

But Zhang Xing's identification brought the case back to its starting point.The starting point that Xu Shan identified was lost.

At first, Xu Shan always thought that someone imitated Ding Zeren's handwriting and wrote this suicide note for him. Especially when Qin Haixia said that the lines and the handwriting might not be the same person, Xu Shan thought that he was the closest. The truth is out.

As a result, objective reality slapped him in the face mercilessly.

He was a little helpless and embarrassed, but he still chose to accept it.His previous detective work had been quite smooth sailing, and he almost caught the person as soon as he arrived, but this was definitely not the normal work of criminal investigators.

Often, the investigation behind a case, especially a murder case, requires criminal investigation staff to work day and night and for many months before the real culprit can finally be brought to justice.

Xu Shan has also seen this in many documents from later generations. In order to solve a case, criminal investigation staff were on a business trip, traveling all over the world, wearing out countless pairs of leather shoes, and finally catching the murderer. That was Countless.

Therefore, although Xu Shan seemed to have received some blows, he did not seem to have been hit. Anyway, he was still able to clearly understand himself and could accept the investigation all over again.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Shan took Bao Laohei and Su Jing to Changji Yigang again. This time, he found Ding Zeren’s youngest brother, Ding Zesui, who was in Changji Yigang. The young man who runs the canteen seems to know something special.It is estimated that Xu Shan can get some ideas for solving the case from him.