"Do you suspect that Xing Zhongdian was the culprit in the rape and murder case more than forty years ago?"

Director Ma Jinzhong was very surprised when he heard the report of the new captain Ling Zhan.

"Ma Ju, although this case has nothing to do with the two cases currently in the hands of the serious crime team, since the suspect Tang Ju has listed so many suspicious points about the rape and murder case back then, and the ministry is also starting to deal with the unsolved cases left over from history, we thought, can we take the opportunity to investigate?"

It is a great risk to investigate an old overseas Chinese who has done a lot of good deeds in recent years, and the major news media have publicized and reported it from time to time, and can be regarded as a news figure. Once the news leaks out, and in the end it cannot be proved that the other party is the murderer of the old case, not to mention that the city bureau cannot end it, I am afraid that it will affect the provincial department. It will even hit the enthusiasm of many overseas Chinese who want to return to their roots and return to the motherland like Xing Zhongdian, and have a similar experience with Xing Zhongdian - it is also the enthusiasm of a large number of overseas Chinese who smuggled out of the country in that turbulent era.

Therefore, after pondering for a long time, Ma Jinzhong said to Ling Zhan: "This matter must be cautious, you must first secretly conduct a small-scale investigation, and you must not point the finger at Xing Zhongdian without real evidence." When I turned around, I immediately reported the situation to the Municipal Legal Committee and the provincial department. ”

"Rest assured, we know what to do."

Ling Zhan was not uneasy in his heart. However, since there are suspicious points, if there is no investigation, let's not say that it is not worthy of the fifteen-year-old girl Tang Xiaodie and her relatives who died tragically, first of all, I will not be able to pass the threshold of my conscience.

Moreover, there was a faint feeling in Ling Zhan's heart that once it was confirmed that Xing Zhongdian was the culprit of the rape and murder case more than forty years ago, then the purpose of the good deeds he had done in recent years might not be so simple.

When he returned to the office, he saw that Xiao Hua had already put the closing report of the tattoo case on his desk, Ling Zhan picked it up and glanced at it and said, "I won't read it, let's just hand it over to the Horse Bureau." ”

Seeing Ling Zhan push the case closure report over, Xiao Hua asked with some surprise, "I'll go?" ”

"It stands to reason that Fu Yuan should go. After all, I don't know much about this case, and the director doesn't know anything about it, doesn't it embarrass me? ”

knew that Ling Zhan was joking, but it was not difficult to see from this that Ling Zhan was not a person who liked to make up in front of the leader when he had nothing to do. This alone made Xiao Hua look up to the new vice-captain. So he smiled and said, "Team Ling will wait for me for ten minutes, send it and come back immediately." ”

Ling Zhan also needed time to understand the details of the old case in the public security system about the rape and murder case more than 40 years ago. and the grievances between the Xing and Tang families for many years. As for Xing Zhongdian's personal information, Ling Zhan knew in his heart, and I was afraid that there would not be too many in the system. What Xun Jianguo collected before should be all.

In the sixties and seventies of the last century, most of the people who left the country through illegal means were treated as missing persons in the data of the public security system. There are very few people who can stay, and Ling Zhan is clear about this.

Therefore, in order to investigate whether Xing Zhongdian is the culprit of the rape and murder case, in Tang Ju's interrogation records, the suspicious points listed by him about the rape and murder of his aunt Tang Xiaodie have undoubtedly become the main clues of the investigation. However, it is necessary to go to Sishizhu Village in Fuyuan City to conduct field investigations. In this way, it is very difficult to do it secretly and hide it from Xing Zhongdian.

When Ling Zhan was pondering where to start, it didn't take ten minutes for Xiao Hua to come back.

When he entered the door, he saw that Ling Zhan was reading the transcript of Song Jin's interrogation of Tang Ju, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Team Ling, when will you leave?" ”

"Of course, the sooner the better, but the horse bureau means that Xing Zhongdian cannot be alarmed for the time being, so things are a little tricky."

"Actually, it's impossible not to let Xing Zhongdian know. In that case, why don't we go to Fuyuan City openly and openly on the pretext of investigating old cases? Xiao Hua looked at Ling Zhan and continued: "After all, dealing with unsolved cases left over from history is an action arranged by the Ministry of Public Security. If the rape and murder case was really committed by Xing Zhongdian, he must have known this for a long time. If it weren't for him, then there would be no need for us to hide anything. ”

"Well, that makes sense." Ling Zhan hesitated for a moment and said, "It is more than three hundred kilometers from here to Fuyuan City, and Sishizhu Village is still more than a hundred kilometers away from Fuyuan City. Why don't we leave now and visit the police who handled the case in advance? ”

"Okay. It's just that those people are afraid that they have long since retired or passed away. ”

"How many can you find, do you want to go home and explain?"

"No, it's just a phone call."

When Ling Zhan and Xiao Hua were planning to rush to Fuyuan City overnight, Rong Liang and Zhao Zengyuan, who were investigating Li Diying, also drove away from Jiangjun City and went straight to Songyuan City. When they visited Li Zhaolin's parents and their neighbors again, they accidentally learned that someone knew a local acquaintance who had been contacted by the trafficker who abducted and sold Li Diying five years ago. It didn't take much effort to find the man, and he learned the true identity of the trafficker.

A comparison of the population database revealed that the trafficker had been arrested two years ago and was now serving his sentence in a prison in Matsubara City.

"Zengyuan, just transfer to the serious crime team."

"Hehe, does it make a difference?"

"That's right."

Originally, Zhao Zengyuan and Song Jin were sent to the Serious Crime Team by Director Lin Jia of the National Security Bureau to investigate Yang Yutang's case in order to conceal their identities, but now they have to participate in all the cases because of the lack of manpower in the Serious Crime Team.

"Brother Liang, can I ask you a question?"

"What?"

"Why haven't you ever married?"

"It's not that I don't want to, it's a question of who I want to tie up with."

It could be heard that Rong Liang didn't want to talk about personal matters, so Zhao Zengyuan didn't say anything more. The road of more than 200 kilometers from Shogun Castle to Matsubara arrived unconsciously in the casual conversation between the two. He went straight to the prison on the outskirts of Matsubara City and immediately interrogated the trafficker.

"Do you remember abducting and selling a girl named Sakurako five years ago?"

"Sakurako? A little impressed. ”

"Think about it, where did you come from, or who did you get her from?"

When Rong Liang said this, Zhao Zengyuan added: "If you can cooperate well and provide valuable information, we can suggest that the prison reduce your sentence." ”

The trafficker, who was over 50 years old, was sentenced to life in prison, and he certainly did not want to spend the rest of his life in prison. So after hearing Zhao Zengyuan's words, he first glanced at the two of them gratefully, and when he saw that Rong Liang also nodded, he lowered his head and thought carefully for a while.

Then he looked up and said, "That girl I met by accident at the provincial train station." I remember very well that she was dressed very rustic, as if she had just come out of the remote countryside. But if you look closely, you can see that the person looks quite good, so I was moved.

After talking to her on the pretext, I heard that she couldn't stand her husband's abuse and had to run out of the house. Just when I wanted to use some method to take her away, she took the initiative to ask me if I could help her find a job or find a good mother-in-law.

Of course, I was overjoyed when I heard this, so I nodded my head in agreement. But then she put forward a condition that I didn't expect. ”

"On what terms?"

"She said that she had to be from General City before she was willing to marry."

Hearing this, Zhao Zengyuan's heart moved, and he asked casually: "What is the reason?" ”

Sakurako said she was abducted when she was five years old and sold to a middle-aged couple with no children and no daughters. Later, when she was in her teens, she vaguely learned from the middle-aged couple that the traffickers who abducted her had revealed to them that Sakurako's two-year-old brother was also abducted at the same time, and he was sold to Shogun City. That's why Sakurako wants to go to Shogun City, hoping to find her brother in the future. ”

"Where is Sakurako's hometown?"

"She doesn't remember."

"What about the middle-aged couple who bought her?"

According to Sakurako, the place is called Chengyu Town, a small town in the remote mountainous area between Sichuan Province and Chongqing. The couple who adopted her died of food poisoning at the same time when Sakurako was thirteen years old. ”

"Since it's a family, why is Sakurako okay?"

"I also asked Sakurako out of curiosity, and she said that she ate at school at noon, and when she came home from school in the afternoon, she saw many people in the family, and only then did she learn that her adoptive parents had been poisoned by eating poisonous mushrooms at lunch."

Next, Rong Liang and Zhao Zengyuan asked the traffickers where they bought the cherry blossoms in Jiangjun City, what people, etc., and found that it was consistent with the current situation, and the traffickers had no other information to provide otherwise, so the two left the prison and returned to Jiangjun City overnight.