The moment Huang Xu walked out of the train station, he was very emotional. It's been about six or seven years since he left here, and after so much time in a remote county in Guangxi, he still hasn't forgotten what happened back then.

At that time, he and Jing Chu were both criminal police officers in Zeshan County, which is located in the southwest of Nancheng and is an economically developed county.

But when that incident happened, Zeshan District was still Zeshan County, and at that time he was already the deputy captain, and if he went one step further, he could become the deputy director, and his future was immeasurable.

Nobody thought it would happen, nobody.

A total of 9 young women were killed in their homes, all dressed in red, and for a time the whole county was panicked, and no women dared to go out on the streets as soon as it was dark.

The sister of the last victim volunteered and was willing to use her example as bait to help the police arrest the murderer, but unfortunately it fell short, not only did the murderer not be caught, but even the girl was compensated.

Huang Xu was disheartened, and his superiors were also dissatisfied with his performance, and finally transferred him to the county seat of Guangxi, and it was so many years in a flash.

But Jing Chu knew that the reason why Huang Xu was so hit was not only because he let the murderer run away under his nose, but also because the girl had already been secretly dating him at that time.

The double blow of dereliction of duty and the loss of his loved one once made him collapse, but he even vowed to catch the murderer and stab the enemy.

But the murderer, as if he knew what he was thinking, disappeared after killing ten women, never to be seen again.

Memories flashed in front of him one by one, Huang Xu looked up at the rare blue sky and white clouds in Nancheng, and exhaled lightly.

He took a taxi to a hotel near the police station and opened a room to stay, and Jing Chu quickly called to ask him where he was and asked him to go to a restaurant for dinner.

But Huang Xu was not in the mood to eat, as soon as Jing Chu came, he said, "I'm not here to eat." He stared at Jing Chu's eyes tightly, "You called me here, definitely not to eat." ”

"But you still have to eat the meal, you've been waiting for so long, are you still afraid of a meal?" Jing Chu opened the menu and ordered, still remembering to order a braised large intestine for him, "This is the restaurant we used to eat at before, and we moved here." ”

This sentence evokes Huang Xu's memories of the past, when investigating a case, he usually does not distinguish between day and night, it is very hard, when he has time to eat, it may be late at night, or it may be early in the morning, he will take his juniors to a restaurant to eat, and he will always order a braised large intestine.

When the dishes were served, the aroma was fragrant, and Huang Xu smiled after tasting the chopsticks: "It's indeed the original one." His face, which had been tense, relaxed, and tiredness came to his senses, and he looked several years older.

Jing Chu asked him about his current situation, and learned that he had never been married, he was still alone, he was going to be forty years old this year, and the man was forty-one flowers, but he was as old as he was in his fifties.

"Thank you for what happened last time." Jing Chu is now on his way to work, and he is not good at drinking, so he took tea and touched him to greet him.

Huang Xu also felt ridiculous when he thought about it: "Why did you find a girlfriend at such a young age?" ”

For this question, Jing Chu could only smile and answer: "Fate." ”

Huang Xu is not a person who is interested in other people's private lives, and it is almost the same when he asks here, he turned the topic to the place he is most concerned about: "You came to me, do you have any clues?" ”

"This matter starts with last year's case." Jing Chu told him about the Rainy Night Butcher case, and Huang Xu lit a cigarette and listened carefully.

But he didn't understand why Jing Chu wanted to tell him about this case first: "Although they all started against the woman in red, the modus operandi was completely different, and it was not a case committed by the same person." ”

"I know." Jing Chu did not deny this, he also believed that Zhou Dazhi was the murderer of Wang Lu and several other women, but the reason why he brought up this matter also had his own considerations, "Two days ago, a female corpse was fished up in the lake of Nancheng University, strangled to death, and she was dressed in red. ”

Huang Xu is also an old criminal policeman, so he can naturally understand the meaning of his words: "Just because the deceased are all young women in red clothes, do you think these three cases have anything to do with each other?" What about the evidence. ”

"Intuition."

Intuition is a wonderful thing, and the intuition of the police is more like a combination of experience and observation, I can't say it, but it's very accurate.

Jing Chu trusted his instincts, and so did Huang Xu.

"I can't jump to conclusions right now, I'm going to look at the previous file and the corpse this time."

"Yes."

In the morgue, Wei Han leaned against the cabinet and explained to them: "Mechanical suffocation, he was sexually assaulted before he died, and the murderer's modus operandi is very sophisticated, leaving no valuable clues." ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Jing Chu, motioning for him to introduce who this man with a bitter face and hatred was.

"I'll talk to you in a minute."

In the office, Huang Xu read the file of Zhou Dazhi's case again, and after reading it, he didn't say a word, and it took a long time to rub the sun and say, "Are you sure?" ”

"Nope." "But I think there is a connection between the three cases." ”

Huang Xu took a hard puff of his cigarette, and nodded slowly for a long time: "Where is Zhou Dazhi, I want to see him first." ”

"I'll arrange it for you." Jing Chu hesitated for a moment in his heart, but he still agreed.

But his intuition once again told him that if he wanted to investigate Zhou Dazhi's case again, then it would inevitably involve Yang Mianmian, but Zhou Dazhi was the only murderer arrested in the three cases, and he could not be avoided no matter what.

It is even very likely that we will still have to find a breakthrough from Zhou Dazhi.

In the afternoon, the bureau held a meeting to discuss the new case, and Huang Xu went to visit Zhou Dazhi in prison, and the day passed in a blink of an eye, and when Jing Chu received Huang Xu's call, it was already dark, and he didn't have time to say to him in detail: "You come to the bureau first, we'll talk later, I'm in a hurry to go out." ”

"What's the clue?" Huang Xu's spirit was shocked.

Jing Chu coughed: "I'm going to pick up my girlfriend, I can't let her go home alone so late." ”

"I'll see you later." Huang Xu can understand that it was the same when he was with Pang Qian, at that time, no woman dared to go to the street in Zeshan County at night, Pang Qian had something urgent to go out that day, but no one could find him, and he had his phone number on him, so he called him hard, and the two of them had feelings between them like this.

Now that Pang Qian has been dead for so many years, when he closes his eyes, he can still remember the way she pursed her mouth and smiled at him at that time.

The police are not good at pleasing his wife, especially for a position like a criminal policeman, the girlfriend he talked about before couldn't stand his overtime days every day, and when he was divided, he never had much time to find it, and he dragged it out again and again, and he was old.

Pang Qian is a cashier with a low income, but he is only twenty-five years old, he is thirty-four, and he never thought that she would follow him without hesitation.

At that time, she said this, "Brother, let's get married after this matter is over, I am at home, you don't have to worry." ”

He even had a wedding ring ready, and he had persuaded her not to do such a dangerous thing, but Pang Qian was very persistent, saying that if she didn't catch the murderer, she was sorry that her sister couldn't get married.

It's just that...... All her good wishes came to naught the moment she died.

The flowers bloomed two and one on each branch, and while Huang Xu was recalling the old dream, Yang Mianmian and Jing Chu had a dispute over one thing.

The cause of the incident was that when Jing Chu arrived at the school, he found that Yang Mianmian was not waiting for him downstairs in the laboratory, and he didn't answer the phone, but fortunately, she appeared automatically after two minutes, and as soon as Huan Huanxi took his hand, Yang Mianmian felt that something was wrong.

The mobile phone silently reminded her in her trouser pocket: "Jing Chu is angry......"

Yang Mianmian looked up at him secretly, and found that his face was slightly gloomy, not the usual gentle smile when she saw her, she was a little drumming in her heart, she wanted to defend herself a few words but didn't know how to speak, and even, she was a little scared when she saw him with such an expression.

I'm afraid he'll get angry and ignore her.

After walking for a while, Jing Chu didn't say a word, Yang Mianmian was really stunned: "Are you angry?" She tugged at his sleeve, "Don't you stop talking." ”

Jing Chu looked at her, and his tone was particularly flat: "What to say?" ”

He had never spoken to her so coldly, and Yang Mianmian was anxious all of a sudden: "Don't be like this!" ”

"I told you to stay there and wait for me not to wander around, did you hear that?" Jing Chu stopped and asked her.

Yang Mianmian wanted to say that it was because a friend remembered the clues of the previous case, so she ran out, and she explained to him: "I didn't walk around for no reason." ”

Of course, Jing Chu wouldn't really turn his face with Yang Mianmian because of such a trivial matter, but he didn't want to experience the pain of losing her in the desert again, especially when he saw Huang Xu and remembered how he had been separated from Pang Qiantian forever before, he couldn't stop being afraid in his heart.

At that moment, he really felt like his heart was going to stop.

"Will a murderer not kill you because you don't have a reason?"

No, of course not. Yang Mianmian knew that she was at fault, but she also felt aggrieved in her heart, why didn't she give her a chance to explain, she is different from before now, and she will no longer cause trouble so indiscriminately.

How could he give her a cold face? ←That's the point.

She knew that she was wrong first, but it was a grievance, a grievance of 120,000 points, and after becoming more and more wronged, the original ignorance became reasonable: "Are you going to lose your temper with me, ignore me, then I will ignore you." With that, she closed her mouth and stopped talking to him.

The friends deeply experienced a legendary word - messy in the wind.

Yang Mianmian also did what she said, and the two of them fought all the way home, today is Friday, Jing Chu took her back to his house directly, and after sending her home, he turned back to talk to Huang Xu about the case, but he didn't have time to tell Yang Mianmian about it, and the friends were also confused by this suddenness, and completely forgot to remind her, so she thought he was angry with her and left.

Is it worth it?

Yang Mianmian walked around the house twice angrily, took her backpack and opened the cabinet to pack her clothes, and when she opened the cabinet, she found that all the clothes were bought by him, and she really had nothing to take away.

I wanted to pick up my schoolbag and leave, but I walked to the entrance and stopped for a minute, stomped my feet and sat back.

At this time, Jing Chu was discussing the case with Huang Xu, Huang Xu habitually smoked while thinking about problems, the box was full of smoke, and the few dishes ordered had completely cooled down, but none of them had an appetite to eat.

"I went to see Zhou Dazhi this afternoon, and he was very tricky." Huang Xu concluded in an affirmative tone, "He is the most cunning kind of criminal, I think if someone happens to meet him to commit crimes, I'm afraid it will be difficult to arrest him." ”

Jing Chu also has to admit that the Rainy Night Butcher case can be solved so quickly because of Yang Mianmian's "coincidence".

"Did he reveal any clues?"

Huang Xu shook his head regretfully: "No, he only asked me about my intention, and then he didn't say a word, I think it's a little difficult to pry his mouth open." ”

"He doesn't have much time left." Jing Chu stated a fact that could not be ignored, "In ten days, he will be executed." ”

Huang Xu's fingers holding the cigarette shook slightly, and he frowned: "Is it only ten days?" ”

"Well, so we're running out of time." Jing Chu's words were extremely heavy.

He and Huang Xu both understood what a hard-won opportunity this was, but obviously if there were not enough conditions, Zhou Dazhi would not be able to open his mouth at all.

In the hours that followed, both men fell into a long silence.

Jing Chu's mind was full of cases, and when he came home at eleven o'clock, he saw Yang Mianmian sitting on the sofa, not taking a bath and sleeping and watching TV, just there with a straight face, and when he came back, he said expressionlessly: "Tell you, I'm going home!" ”

After speaking, he picked up his schoolbag and left, without squinting.

Jing Chu looked at her for three seconds, his mind turned back from the case to what happened before, he couldn't hold back, and laughed.