Criminal evidence

Shen Changyan left very early in the morning.

Lu Qinghe was still lying on the bed in a daze, when he first heard the subtle sound of the door lock opening and closing in the room.

His whole body was occupied by sleepiness, but he still subconsciously opened his eyes a slit, his vision was blurred by the sticky sleepiness, so Shen Changyan's back turned into three, just dangling back and forth in front of his eyes , until it disappears.

"Changyan left at 6 o'clock in the morning."

At 6 o'clock, the first morning bus from the town departs for the city.

Lu Qinghe washed his face with cold water and rinsed his mouth in the yard, then grabbed two steaming white steamed buns from the table and planned to go outside.

"Phew, it's so hot." He bit one in his mouth, and shook the other with both hands.

"Son, drink a bowl of porridge before leaving. Mom made you cabbage pancakes just now."

"I don't have time to eat." Lu Qinghe walked quickly.

The weather is still hot recently, but the heat is not as menacing as it was some time ago.

After Lu Qinghe ate the steamed buns, he stood at the intersection where the bus stopped, holding in his hand the detailed information of the whole case that he had sorted out.

When he came from home, he originally wanted to find a place to call Ma Yue and tell him about his itinerary for today, but he stayed in the city for a long time, and he didn't realize that in such a small town How hard it is to find a wired phone that can be used to communicate with the outside world.

When the bus passed by the side of the road, Lu Qinghe lined up and walked up. There were not many people on the bus, so he found a seat by the window and sat down.

Yesterday, I had a face-to-face discussion with Shen Changyan about the case, which gave him a clearer understanding of what happened in his mind. The sadness caused by the breakup was suddenly suppressed, as if it had never happened before. Nothing worth mentioning.

At least not to Shen Changyan - he doesn't seem to care at all.

Halfway through the car, the bumpy road made Lu Qinghe unable to concentrate on reading the documents, so he simply closed the paper and looked out the window, letting himself go for a while.

After getting off the car, I arrived at the village committee. It was less than 8:30, and the door of the office was locked. It seemed that I hadn't started work yet.

Lu Qinghe didn't linger too long, relying on his memory, he followed the path paved with loess to the direction of the stream where the body was found.

Passing through the melon field from here is the only way to pass. There are many footprints left on the road, including people's dogs, cats' cattle, and so on.

Judging from the inspection report left by Shen Changyan, relevant police officers cordoned off the scene to collect evidence as soon as the incident happened. Due to the large area of ​​damage, there is almost no effective information in terms of extracting footprints.

Secondly, the autopsy report was handed over to the criminal investigation team by the forensic medicine room at the first time. The deceased had a total of seventeen knife wounds, including scratches on the arms and palms. According to preliminary analysis, these scratches should be caused by the murderer and the deceased. accidental in the process.

In other words, the deceased was sober for a short time during the murder process, and also performed self-help behaviors.

Of the seventeen wounds, one was in the center of the wound, which was a fatal wound, and the other sixteen wounds were made to make up for it, which was a bit like venting anger.

In addition - Lu Qinghe pulled out the autopsy report that Shen Changyan put into his files yesterday.

"Fatally injured, straight down." Lu Qinghe repeated these seven words with some curiosity.

After reading it, he felt that it was not enough, so he made a circle with his hand again, and then rolled the material into a tube shape as a knife, vertically downward from the top, and then vertically downward again, Lu Qinghe felt a little strange.

"What kind of posture does this have to be able to stab him like this?" He muttered to himself, and quickly walked into the rapids in the mountain forest.

The night when he received the police should have been in the early morning, and Lu Qinghe still remembered that he had just broken up with Shen Changyan.

The other party was in a daze of drunkenness, and although he was not drunk, he was also in a daze.

He just remembers that he was brought to the scene of the crime, and his memory after that became blurred and confused. He was like a drunkard who couldn't remember clearly, until he rolled up his sleeves and jumped into the mountain stream. As soon as the turbulent and cool spring water rushed, Lu Qinghe's mind gradually became clear.

"It takes at least 15 minutes to walk from the melon field to the mountain stream. If the murderer killed the victim and was discovered by witnesses, he did not choose to abandon the body and run away, but insisted on carrying the body to this place to throw the body."

Lu Qinghe squatted down to the edge of the spring thoughtfully.

The roar of the small waterfall from top to bottom constantly stimulated his eardrums, and he gently splashed the mountain spring water with his hand.

"The corpse must be thrown away. Why did he have to throw the corpse away? If he is discovered, shouldn't it be the most important thing to hide himself first? Isn't he afraid of being discovered?"

"There is also this road. Before he came, he must pass the melon field. Why didn't he consider the possibility of being discovered? And if he was found, he didn't abandon the body immediately, but insisted on throwing the body into the mountain stream , Is he trying to hide something? But the scene of the crime is so obvious that it is impossible to completely clean up the bloodstains. Even if the body is not found, the scene of the crime will be discovered sooner or later. Why should he do anything extra, and here, How will he get out after he comes in? Is he not afraid of being discovered? Or does he know other hidden paths to get out, but if there are other paths, why doesn’t he just take that path instead of this one? The highway discovered."

Lu Qinghe talked to himself for a while, and finally came to a conclusion on the bank, "It's so strange."

After staying around the scene for about half an hour, Lu Qinghe wandered towards the foot of the mountain again.

The farmer started work early, and he had already bumped into many people by the side of the field one after another.

Perhaps it was because something happened in the village recently, so most of the villagers showed some curious hostility towards the foreign faces. Many people looked at him with a bit of scrutiny, but there were also people who had seen him before, and they talked with him one after another. Lu Qinghe greeted.

"Comrade police, are you here to investigate the case again?"

"Comrade police, is there any progress in this case?"

Lu Qinghe just nodded with a smile, but he didn't respond.

It was almost 9 o'clock when we arrived at the village committee office, and there was finally someone here. Even though we met before, Lu Qinghe's professional habits still made him take out his ID from his coat pocket.

"Lu Qinghe, Criminal Investigation Detachment, Wancheng Public Security Bureau."

"Officer Lu, hello, Officer Lu." Someone rushed up and shook hands with him, "Are you here to investigate the case again today? If there is anything that requires our cooperation in the investigation, just talk, and we will cooperate unconditionally."

"Please, I have to go to the victim's house today."

He could have gone there by himself, but considering that the victim's family members were all women from wife to daughter, Lu Qinghe still hesitated.

He can ignore himself, but he can't ignore the other party.

So I specially came to the village committee and found someone to go with me. Although others might think it was unnecessary, he left after investigating the case, and the family had to stay in the village to continue living. To leave some gossip for others to arrange, that is also my inconsiderateness.

What's more, according to past experience, he must not only come here today.

"I really don't know how to live this day, and I don't know how to live. The head of the family is dead, the backbone is dead, and my sky is falling. Our two children are still so young. How can I be a woman? It’s not enough to pick up such a heavy home.”

The wife of the deceased Zhang Jiang was still very young, so Lu Qinghe glanced at her as soon as he entered the room.

The woman looked less than thirty, but her skin was chapped and rough due to years of farm work and exposure to the scorching sun. Compared to yesterday, her mood had stabilized a lot, at least when Lu Qinghe came yesterday, The other party also knelt on the ground crying out of control.

Today, however, it is obviously much more stable. Although the light in his eyes has dimmed, he can still sit quietly in a chair and talk to other people.

The atmosphere at home was very strange, and even the two little girls seemed to have sensed something was wrong. They hid by the door of another bedroom, and kept looking out with their small black eyes.

"Life must go on." Lu Qinghe was silent for a long time, this was not his style of comforting others, but for some reason, at this moment, he was hoarse, trying his best to squeeze out this A dry sentence.

"How am I going to live, comrade policeman, tell me how I am going to live." The woman's big tears fell from her lifeless eyes, "We have been married for 12 years, and I am 18 years old. I just stayed with him. Although these years have been a bit hard, and I used to be hungry when I was short of food, but I finally got through it. With him by my side, I at least feel that there is hope in life. Suddenly disappeared, why, how could he disappear like a living person."

"You...don't be too sad." Lu Qinghe dug into his pockets, but couldn't find anything that could wipe away tears.

The woman didn't care, she just wiped her red eyes with her hand.

Her mood changed so quickly that Lu Qinghe was a little caught off guard, but it was not incomprehensible. If the violent, heart-piercing, and complaining woman was still struggling to deny the fact that she lost her husband yesterday, then today She has completely accepted such a cruel truth.

"How can I not be sad, that is my husband, no matter how hard and tired I feel, I have a husband to rely on, he just left, he just left, and the two children will depend on me in the future Growing up, I alone picked the water in the house, fed the pigs in the house, and plowed the land in the house alone. When I was tired and tired, I wanted to find someone to complain to, but I couldn’t find one. How could I not be sad. "

The sound of sobbing resounded softly in this room again, heavy and muffled, which made Lu Qinghe feel unknowingly uncomfortable.

The people from the village committee saw that Lu Qinghe was helpless, so they also advised a few words, saying that in the future, people in the village will help each other, such as children going to school, spring plowing and harvesting, neighbors and neighbors It comforted the woman for a long time.

It's just that everyone understands the truth, but the sadness is so turbulent and so real, and it's not an emotion that can be completely dissipated with just a few words.

Lu Qinghe pinched his notes with his fingers, he stood up slowly, took a few steps forward and walked to the woman who was still crying, then knelt down and softly comforted her.

"Everyone is very sad that such a thing happened, but the top priority now is to cooperate with the police to find the murderer as soon as possible. If the person is caught, the evidence is collected, and they go to trial, the court will also make appropriate judgments against the murderer according to the situation. The ruling, and within the scope of ability, provide your family with certain financial assistance."

"I don't care about the money, I just want him back."

"I know you don't care about these compensations, and this amount of money is not comparable to a human life, but now things have happened, and there is still a long way to go, you are only 30 years old, so we try our best and try Can you be stronger?"

"I don't want to." The woman's beady tears hit the back of Lu Qinghe's hand in a "patta patta" manner. That kind of authenticity can infect other people around me, "I don't want to be strong, I don't want to live anymore, I even wanted to follow him yesterday, it's just a one-off, I'll be clean when I die, and I don't have to suffer these things anymore."

Lu Qinghe looked at the village committee member in embarrassment, and shook his head at him, expressing that there was nothing he could do about this situation.

"But there is still a long way to go, and the future may not be all suffering." Lu Qinghe repeated his own words, "Go ahead and see, maybe it will get better."

"Then you can say that it might be, but what if it doesn't get better, what if it becomes more bitter after suffering?"

"But life is all about possibilities. No one can guarantee that it will be good or bad. You have to try."

"I don't want to try it, I just want to get it over with, and die clean."

Lu Qinghe sighed, "What about the child?"

In fact, he shouldn't use children to kidnap a woman's thinking or choices, but now there is really no other way, and he can't say that death is really clean, you might as well just die.

"You are innocent, but the child is also innocent. Your husband suffered an accident. This is something he cannot choose, but you have the right to choose now. You can choose whether to take your own life or stay. You stay , pulling your child to grow up, maybe the future will get better and better, or you can meet better people, these are all possibilities in the future, but if you choose to leave, then your child will passively stay In this world, if they endure the same pain as you are now, they will be more sad than you, and will have the same pain, the same helplessness, or the same resentment as you again. After all, one of them is seven years old this year, and the other One is only five years old."

Lu Qinghe is always so talkative, and Shen Changyan often said that about him before.

If that person was here today, he would never say any more nonsense when he entered the door. If he had any questions in his mind, he would ask directly. If the other party had no way to answer, then he would routinely repeat, "Please cooperate with the police investigation, and don't delay the case for no reason. "

In fact, when Lu Qinghe came here today, he also thought a lot, such as absolutely not wasting time today, just ask questions when you come, and leave when you are done. Use only reason to deal with all the misfortunes in this world.

He seemed to be unable to be a superior bystander.

He will substituting himself unconsciously, and subconsciously take care of other people's emotions. This is what Shen Changyan always criticizes him, but he still has no way to get rid of this.

"Officer Lu, you are really patient."

When I came to the village in the morning, it was almost dark when I stepped out of the room.

Lu Qinghe didn't come home empty-handed this time, at least he densely recorded the key points of the investigation on two pages in his notebook.

He didn't eat anything at noon, and after pouring two large bowls of cold water into his stomach, he continued to work. After the investigation, he squatted by the door of someone's house and smoked a big leaf cigarette, which was handed to him by a person from the village committee. .

When he heard others comment on him like this, Lu Qinghe also lowered his head helplessly and smiled and said, "It's pretty boring, isn't it."

"That's not what it means. Compared with Moji, it should be more appropriate to describe it with a more humane word."

"Human touch?"

"Yes." The village committee member nodded, "Actually, before you came, a police officer also visited the scene on the day of the incident."

On the day of the incident, it should be Shen Changyan.

Lu Qinghe raised his head, "You brought him here too?"

"Well, the police officer I took with me didn't talk very much, and he seemed impersonal. In fact, I also said a lot during the way I brought him here. Most of them were because the backbone of the family was gone. The god of the family It collapsed, but the other party didn’t respond, and didn’t reply to me, and asked about Zhang Jiang’s family’s situation in the middle of the conversation, and then entered the house as a routine, and watched for a long time in the bedroom where the crime happened.”

It's Shen Changyan's style, Lu Qinghe nodded.

The member of the village committee said, "He also took a lot of things, including blood-stained bed sheets, pillowcases, and even pried a piece of the wall."

The time on the pager was about to jump to 20 o'clock in the evening. Without Shen Changyan, his efficiency would have slowed down so much. Lu Qinghe was distracted for a moment.

Colleagues from the village committee politely sent him to the entrance of the village, but everyone knew this well. The bus to the town had already stopped running. If Lu Qinghe walked by himself, the time would not be too short in 3 hours.

"If it's really inconvenient for you to go, why don't you just stay here, take a look at this office or go to my house, usually the last bus to the town runs at 16:[-] in the afternoon, so I guess it's really time to go now No."

Lu Qinghe was a little hesitant. Just as he was hesitating, a beam of light came from behind him.

"Where are you going, Old Zhao?"

"Going back to the town, the broken car turned off halfway today, and it took me a long time, otherwise I would have gone back early."

This is really a road to the front of the mountain. It was a coincidence that Lu Qinghe got on the tractor back to the town by mistake.

He doesn't really want to talk, but the road is boring, and when others chat a few words, he just follows a few words, one hammer to the other, and a stick to the other, which finally makes the tractor "boom, boom, boom" all the way. At the door of your own house.

"Thank you brother."

"Where?"

After a busy day, I finally returned to my own home.

Lu Qinghe took the materials and walked forward quickly, his stomach was rumbling, and he was thinking that he must pull his mother out of bed when he got home, and then make him a bowl of hot and sour noodle soup while it was hot, he would drink three Bowls are enough to fill you up at times.

But suddenly he was stunned by the tall figure at the door of the house.

Lu Qinghe opened his mouth, but he couldn't make any sound, but the other party seemed to feel his breath, so the cigarette in his mouth was slightly lifted up by his chin.

Shen Changyan's voice was hoarse, he seemed to have no strength, "You're back."