Although Yu Junmin has denied that the flying knife murder case has anything to do with him, the evidence currently in his possession points to him, and Ouyang Lan would rather believe that he is lying, justifying himself, and then continue to investigate.

Ouyang Lan re-read the files of the case and found an incident mentioned in the transcript of Zhang Mintao, the wife of the deceased Li Tian.

Li Tian sneaked up one night and accidentally bumped into the table, waking Zhang Mintao up. At that time, Zhang Mintao opened her eyes, but she unexpectedly felt that something was wrong, so she didn't make a sound, only heard Li Tian go to the bedroom on the first floor and call someone.

Out of a woman's intuition, Zhang Mintao's first reaction was that Li Tian had someone outside, and jealousy and hatred were intertwined, so she also secretly got up and came to the bedroom on the first floor to eavesdrop on who Li Tian was talking to.

But when she listened to Li Tian's words, she shouldn't be talking to a woman on the phone, and she also mentioned words like big boss, money, and action, which made her feel that Li Tian was doing something in secret.

Just when she was speculating in her thoughts, the bedroom door was opened, Li Tian was startled when she saw his wife, Zhang Mintao herself was also frightened for a while, and after coming back to her senses, she asked, "Who are you talking to on the phone?"

Li Tian was reluctant to reveal it, but under her questioning, he just said that there was a big boss who asked him to do something, and the remuneration was very high. By doing this, you will be able to get rid of the bitter life of poverty that you are living now.

Zhang Mintao suspected that her husband was going to do something illegal and asked him what he was doing, but Li Tian said that he didn't know it himself and would wait for a temporary notice, but he promised that he would not do anything illegal or criminal again, and that night was over.

The next day, Zhang Mintao kept an eye on it and wrote down the mysterious number in the call record on her husband's mobile phone. At that time, Yang Ziming had already tested this number, and the number was from Jiangxia City, but it had always been in an empty state, and it had obviously been abandoned.

Ouyang Lan recalled this number again, through the inquiry, this number was cancelled a week before the flying knife murder case, the owner of the aircraft is a person named Tang Jun, and it was found in the public security system that Tang Jun is a farmer in his 50s, with an education level of only primary school, and has been farming in his hometown in the countryside, and he has lost his ID card, and later reissued it. The time to make up the **** coincides with the time when the mysterious number was registered, that is to say, Li Tian's employer stole Tang Jun's ID card and applied for that number, which can be described as extremely cunning.

At the beginning of the flying knife murder case, everyone had very high expectations for the city bureau and Yang Ziming, but two years have passed, and the real culprit behind the scenes has still not been arrested, and fortunately, no similar incidents have occurred in the past two years, and the people have gradually forgotten about the case. However, the appearance of Liu Chen last year and the occurrence of the hijacking incident at the railway station brought people's minds back to the knife murder case, and the reaction of the people was also very enthusiastic. So during this time, the city bureau began to pay attention to the knife murder case again.

Ouyang Lan, as a newcomer valued by both the leaders of the Municipal Bureau and Yang Ziming, hosted by her and assisted by Yang Ziming, is very suitable, and Ouyang Lan's ability and professionalism have been affirmed. Although Ouyang Lan is not so reliable in Liu Chen's eyes, it is according to Liu Chen's requirements, in fact, Ouyang Lan has also cracked more than 50 large and small cases, just in the past two years, the efficiency is amazing.

Who is the employer? What did Li Tian do? The two major mysteries surrounding Ouyang Lan's heart have still not been solved. Ouyang Lan has a stubborn personality and is unwilling to bother Yang Ziming to assist many times, as for Liu Chen, according to Yang Ziming's account, it seems that he has always been very concerned about the flying knife murder case, it is better to ask him, maybe he has some details that he has not noticed.

So Ouyang Lan tentatively sent a message to Liu Chen and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm checking the information, I'm not very busy, what's wrong?"

"Is it investigating the flying knife murder case?" Ouyang Lan deliberately threw out the topic first, seemingly unintentional, but the purpose was obvious.

Of course, this was also expected by Liu Chen, Liu Chen replied: "Yes, I happened to be looking at this case, by the way, is there any progress on your side?"

This also happened to match Ouyang Lan's appetite, Ouyang Lan said that he couldn't tell the message clearly, so he called Liu Chen directly, and then began to talk to Liu Chen about his views and opinions on this case, as if he was chatting with his colleagues about the case, without reservation.

First of all, Liu Chen was not surprised that Yu Junmin denied the result of the flying knife murder case, and he asked Yang Ziming to ask, just to confirm his guess. Liu Chen has no clue about Ouyang Lan's two major questions for the time being, but he put forward a different point of view, that is, he believes in Yu Junmin and believes that he is not the murderer of the flying knife murder case.

Ouyang Lan has always regarded the military and civilians as the murderers of the case, and the investigation he did was also to confirm the conclusion in his heart, so that he encountered many obstacles, and the method of deriving cause from effect would not work here.

Liu Chen analyzed Ouyang Lan, Li Tian must have helped his employer complete his work, so he got a good reward, according to Li Tian's reckless character, he definitely would not eliminate all the clues like his employer, so he can start from Li Tian and see if there are any clues related to this case. Among them, as the wife who shares the same bed, Zhang Mintao must know something and needs to ask her again.

Only by having a clear understanding of what Li Tian did can we trace the identity of the employer according to the clues. Liu Chen's inference made Ouyang Lan suddenly enlightened, she hung up the phone and continued to review and analyze the entire case, indeed she missed a lot of key points before, so she followed Liu Chen's suggestion and went to Li Tian's wife Zhang Mintao on the same day.

Zhang Mintao has not remarried after Li Tian's death, and she has put all her thoughts on her daughter who is in high school. Just to avoid seeing things and thinking about things, she has moved out of the original alley and rented a house on Tianyun Road, and her life is better than before, and the money is left by Li Tian.

Ouyang Lan came to Tianyun Road alone, and after several inquiries, he finally found Zhang Mintao's place of residence in a community with a sense of age.

Zhang Mintao was drying clothes on the balcony alone, she lived on the second floor, Ouyang Lan knocked on the door, Zhang Mintao saw Ouyang Lan wearing casual clothes, and asked suspiciously: "May I ask who you are?"

Ouyang Lan nodded with a smile and asked, "Hello, are you Sister Zhang Mintao?"

"yes. Zhang Mintao looked Ouyang Lan up and down, constantly guessing in his mind who this beautiful beauty was in front of him, and thought that it was a new tenant in the community who wanted to borrow something.

Ouyang Lan introduced herself: "Hello, I am Ouyang Lan from the Municipal Bureau, and this is my ID." With that, Ouyang Lan took out the police card in his pocket.

Zhang Mintao was very surprised when she saw that it was a police visit, but she immediately welcomed: "It turned out to be a police officer, please come in." ”

Ouyang Lan walked into the house under the leadership of Zhang Mintao, this room is not big, two bedrooms and one living room, about 60 square meters, but it is enough for their mother and daughter.

Zhang Mintao was about to make tea for Ouyang Lan, but Ouyang Lan refused and said, "No need to make tea, Sister Zhang, I'm here to ask you something this time, come and sit down first." ”

Zhang Mintao put down the tea leaves in his hand, wiped his hands, and sat down in front of Ouyang Lan. Since her husband's accidental death, Zhang Mintao seems to have changed as a person, no longer the vigorous woman she used to be, but has become a lot more silent.

Ouyang Lan saw that Zhang Mintao was a little nervous, so he explained: "Sister Zhang, don't be nervous, I just asked you about something, and I don't mean anything else." ”

"Oh, good, good. ”

Seeing that Zhang Mintao was calm, Ouyang Lan took out a piece of information, as well as a pen and paper, and recorded while asking: "I want to ask you something about your husband Li Tian this time, are you willing to cooperate?"

After her husband was killed, she had been questioned by the police many times, and she was already familiar with this kind of scene, and she also wanted her husband's death to be revealed as soon as possible, so she nodded very positively: "Yes, you can ask whatever you want, as long as I know, I will say everything." ”

"Okay. With Zhang Mintao's cooperation, Ouyang Lan began to inquire according to the needs of the case: "Excuse me, after you found out that your husband was doing secret things, did he reveal any relevant information to you?"

Zhang Mintao recalled for nearly half a minute, then shook his head and replied, "No, I haven't revealed it, because he doesn't know what to do himself, he has just been waiting for the notice from his mysterious employer." ”

"How did that mysterious employer know your husband was up to the task?"

"I also asked, but my husband said that since the employer found him, it means that the task is not very difficult. Oh yes, maybe my husband is more bold, he once told me that he went to a wilderness where there are several lonely graves that are being moved, and it is still the middle of the night, which is very scary, and ordinary people must not have that courage. ”

Zhang Mintao's information was very crucial, and Ouyang Lan realized that it must be related to the mysterious mission that Li Tian had done.

Ouyang Lan asked tentatively, "Is it?, you haven't talked about this information before?"

Zhang Mintao explained: "I only remembered it when I went to my hometown not long ago to worship my ancestors. ”

Ouyang Lan recorded the information Zhang Mintao said in detail, and she had a strong premonition that that the desolate cemetery must be the place where Li Tian and his employer met, otherwise Li Tian would never go to that kind of place in the middle of the night for no reason.

Ouyang Lan asked Zhang Mintao a lot of questions later, but none of them were as critical and excited as this one piece of information, and there was an indescribable joy in her chest, as if an invisible big stone was slowly being moved.

The stone is about to be moved, will the truth be far away?