Miao Haizhu read the basic situation of the people who were investigated one by one, and the actual performance learned during the investigation process later, and the three old men and Lao Ding carefully analyzed and repeatedly considered whether they could be related to the victim as if they were holding a seminar.

They were so serious and focused that Han Chaoyang couldn't even interject.

Minute by minute, it was already past two o'clock in the morning.

Han Chaoyang's sleepy upper eyelids were lowered, and he couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help but raise his head: "Uncle Ji, master, it's useless to analyze it like this." ”

"Why is it useless, do you have a better way?" Ji Kaiyuan asked, staring at him unhappily.

Because he didn't know what time he was going to toss, Han Chaoyang picked up the cigarette in front of Lao Ding, lit it and smoked a few puffs to refresh himself, sorted out his thoughts and analyzed: "Uncle Ji, in fact, the direction of our investigation is generally the same as the investigation direction of the task force, and they are all suspects who are in line with the criminal investigation experts of the provincial department according to the analysis of the footprints at the scene, the only difference is that the task force does not dare and cannot narrow the scope to such a small size as us." ”

Ji Kaiyuan thought that the young man had something high, but he found that saying a lot of things was equivalent to saying nothing, and asked lightly: "Is there anything else?"

"There is also the fact that the task force may have preconceived notions and only consider the possibility of adult men committing crimes, and not the possibility of adult women committing crimes. ”

"Chaoyang, what do you want to say?" Grandpa Gu asked puzzled.

"Master, I mean the task force has already ruled it out, although it is unlikely that we are so detailed, but the suspect's height and weight and other characteristics are so obvious, it is also impossible to miss too much. We went through it several times like a sieve, and if we could have sifted out the suspect in this way, it would have been screened out earlier, and there was really no point in sifting through it like this. ”

It wasn't until she joined the small task force that Miao Haizhu felt like a real policeman, who was on the rise, how could she give up easily, and couldn't help asking: "What else can I do if I don't screen like this?"

Han Chaoyang really didn't have any good way, but if he didn't say one, two, three, four, they didn't know what time they were going to toss, so they thought about it and said in a low voice: "Elimination method!"

"What's the elimination?" Miao Haizhu asked.

"First of all, it is unlikely that people are local to the murderer. Han Chaoyang stood up and looked at the personnel materials that were investigated, and according to the remarks on the materials, he put the local ones on the left-hand side, and said while rummaging: "Uncle Ji said at night that the geese have taken pictures and people have left their names, and the task force has investigated them, and we have investigated them more carefully." If these people really had a relationship with the victim, even if it was only a little related, we would have identified him as a suspect long ago. After all, this is Yanyang, not a deserted and uninhabited mountainous area, as long as the victim has dealt with him, it is impossible for no one to see him. ”

Wu Wenge raised his head and asked, "Chaoyang, do you suspect that you are a local who is not in the local area?"

"If Uncle Ji's speculation is correct, then there is only this possibility. ”

"But except for those who have not received feedback for the time being after the letter of assistance was issued, there are only three people left who have been ruled out by you!" Ji Kaiyuan picked up the only three remaining personnel materials, stared at Han Chaoyang and said: "And one of them is doing business in other places, and they haven't come back for the Spring Festival, and no one has seen him come back." One went to the south to work on the ninth day of the first lunar month, and another was sent by the unit to go on a business trip a few days before the incident, and the two of them went together. ”

"Don't have time to commit the crime?" Han Chaoyang asked absentmindedly.

"Not only did they not commit the crime, not only were they not lame, but also the possibility that they were related to the victim was not found during the investigation. ”

Han Chaoyang just said so much just to go back to sleep early, but Old Man Ji was aggressive, and he couldn't get down, so he could only pick up the materials and muttered while reading: "Uncle Ji, we can't arbitrarily judge that the suspect is lame just because the footprints found at the scene are deep and shallow, didn't I go to the Sixth Hospital to go to the police when the Feng Bureau didn't leave, and I accidentally saw a patient who was also limping and lame."

At that time, the emergency center was busy, there was no one at the medical guidance desk, he didn't know which department to hang, he went directly to the second surgical room, the doctor asked him to take off his shoes, looked at his feet, asked a few questions, suspected that it was gout, so he called the doctor on duty in the internal medicine department, the internist may also be busy, and called the doctor in the immunology department, it doesn't matter which department should be hung, the important thing is that the suspect may be a gout patient. ”

Ji Kaiyuan said without thinking: "Even if it's gout, what can it say, isn't there still something wrong with his feet?"

"It can explain a lot of problems!" Wu Wenge had never suffered from gout, but he had seen gout patients, and he looked back and explained: "Old Ji, gout is a chronic disease, it is difficult to cure it, and it will recur. No seizures, no pain in the feet, can walk, run and work. When you have a seizure, your feet hurt to death, and you walk with a limp. ”

Han Chaoyang struck while the iron was hot and said: "Maybe I didn't have this disease before, but suddenly I had it, the patient I met in the Sixth Hospital at night, he didn't have gout before, and his foot hurt inexplicably today, and the pain was terrible, I don't know what the disease is, I went to the Sixth Hospital for examination at night." ”

Ji Kaiyuan didn't think that there was such a coincidence in the world, and looked at Han Chaoyang and asked suspiciously: "The gout patient you saw at night, the foot that hurts when you walk is the heel to the ground?"

"Well, I can see it clearly, either I would have come back early on the heel, or I thought it was strange that I followed him all the way to the second surgical room, and watched at the door for a while. ”

Miao Haizhu was single-minded in solving the case, so regardless of the coincidence, he got up and picked up a personnel material: "Wei Ping can be ruled out, because he is not on a business trip alone, but two people go to other places to do after-sales together." His neighbor is in a factory with him, he may lie, but his neighbor is unlikely, and Chai Xingning may also rule it out, because he took his wife and children to do business in other places, and even took his mother-in-law over, and he has not lived in Taoyuan New Village's home for a long time. ”

Ji Kaiyuan felt that it was unreliable to judge that the murderer also suffered from gout just because Han Chaoyang accidentally found a gout patient who was walking on his heels, and said with a gloomy face: "It stands to reason that you can rule it out that Lu Donghui can also rule it out, people go out to work on the ninth day of the first lunar month, an honest person, and the family conditions are not good, how can it be related to the victim!"

"Then count Wei Ping as well, and the two of them will check together!" Miao Haizhu didn't want to let go of any suspicions, shook his hair and said sonorously: "Just because they went out doesn't mean that they haven't come back secretly, and if they come back secretly, they won't necessarily be met by their neighbors. ”