A red CD Walkman, a box of half-new black tapes, and a round disc of sky blue.

At this time, the emerging electronic product of the Walkman is still a luxury for ordinary people, and the Walkman on the Haicheng City is mostly in tape format, and although the Walkman that plays this disc format is also available in China, it is generally sold in big cities.

Like the female deceased Zhang Xiumei, a female textile worker who came out of the countryside for less than a year, can have a CD Walkman, in fact, it is really a bit abnormal if you think about it carefully. Zhou Nan wanted to buy one last year, but his mother Yue Ping didn't agree to buy it for him because it was too expensive, let alone such a young female worker with a low income.

That's fine, having a Walkman doesn't mean much. But what really caught Zhou Nan's attention and shock was this box of black tapes and that disc. There was a slight tear on the edge of the tape and in the corner of the disc, and it was hard to notice if you didn't look closely.

This kind of crack is not man-made damage, let alone old wear and tear, but very particular.

It's called "slapping". Mouth discs, that is, foreign genuine discs, foreign publishers because of overestimation of sales volume and mass production, the result is that they cannot be sold and have to be destroyed. These discs have entered the country through different channels and become sought-after goods, almost all of which come from the United States.

For those who were obsessed with classical or postmodern music in the mid-to-late 90s, there was no one who didn't listen to a disc.

The music itself is complete and the sound quality is the best, but unfortunately it is given a twisted form. In the music industry, people who are obsessed with playing discs or tapes are called "mouthbreakers", which is probably similar to the fashionable titles such as "moonlight clans" in later generations.

In the 90s, many of the most popular and best-selling discs were gothic music style series. Zhou Nan leaned down to carefully observe the disc and found that it was exactly like this. This kind of music deliberately creates a dark, decadent, cold, and terrifying atmosphere, which makes people feel depressed and hopeless, and expresses the yearning for death and blackness, which contains both a refined beauty and a sense of incongruity.

To be honest, people who love to listen to this kind of music generally have a high level of literacy and musical literacy. It can even be said that this is a relatively elegant cultural taste, and few ordinary people can listen to this thing.

Zhou Nan stood up slowly, feeling very weird.

The female deceased, as a textile worker, liked to play discs and Gothic-style European and American classical music? This may not be a surname, but even if it is a preference, these things are likely to be related to the murderer.

He didn't know if the police had considered this detail and whether they had traced it deeper, but he felt that this was definitely a very critical clue that could not be let go.

Zhou Nan originally wanted to talk to his father Zhou Ningyu about this immediately, but then thought about it and gave up. He walked out of the exhibition hall, hesitated for a while at the door of the Haidu City Public Security Bureau, and finally took a taxi straight to Haida.

He knew very well that there was only one place to sell discs in the current Haidu. In the antique culture market on the left side of the east entrance of Haida, there are not many stall owners selling this, and most of them are music fans who like this. This cultural market is also a place where the Takou people often gather.

got out of the car and stood at the east gate of Haida, Zhou Nan stared at the deep campus boulevard behind the two wide and solemn gates, covered by red walls and green tiles, Zhou Nan's eyes flashed with complex brilliance, and slowly gathered into a fierce color.

In the early winter, the campus is very calm and deserted, and occasionally a few college students, both men and women, walk out or walk into the campus. But in this peaceful campus, there is a life-and-death enemy who makes Zhou Nan full of anger and coldness when he thinks about it from time to time - [***] Chen Xiaoning.

Chen Xiaoning's father is a high-ranking official in the province, and he should still be the vice chairman of the provincial CPPCC at this time. Although Chen Xiaoning's father is only a deputy ministerial-level cadre, and he is not a vice-ministerial-level cadre with real power, Chen Xiaoning's mother Long Min is not simple. Long Min was born in a wealthy and powerful family in the capital, and his uncle was the founding father of the country, General Feng Lao.

When General Feng was awarded the medal in 55, he was rated as a major general, but he was just an ordinary general. However, after returning from the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, he was appreciated by the leaders of the Central Military Commission for his outstanding military achievements, and entered the General Staff Headquarters.

Although Long Min is not a direct relative of the Feng family, in a society of human affection and kinship in China, relatives are still relatives after all, and they can still borrow some strength. Obviously, Chen Xiaoning's father, Vice Chairman Chen, can be mixed with a deputy minister, which is not unrelated to the background of the Feng family.

At this moment, Chen Xiaoning is not the chairman of Hailan Group and the arrogant and domineering Chen Xiaoning, he is now a teacher or an associate professor of Haida University.

At this point in time, Zhou Nan in his previous life has not yet met Chen Xiaoning. The two met a few years later, at that time, Zhou Nan initially built his own business kingdom and was a business genius born in the domestic business world; Chen Xiaoning also resigned from business at that time and founded Heilan Group. Although Heilan Group is headquartered in Jinghua, its main business is still located in Binhai Province.

Later, Feiteng Group and Heilan Group had a fierce conflict over the landscape project of Haidu Binhai New Area, and at the same time that Zhou Nan won the project, he offended Chen Xiaoning, who was deeply hidden and looked like a Sven [***].

Later, Chen Xiaoning lured Zhou Nan's assistant Pan Hu to conspire and instruct people to secretly open stock market accounts, manipulate the stocks of Feiteng Energy and Feiteng Real Estate in charge of Zhou Nan, create the illusion of active trading in the secondary market, and arbitrage a large amount of shareholders' funds...... Of course, this is just a means for Chen Xiaoning to frame Zhou Nan, and his series of planting methods also include forging fake accounts and fabricating various documents for Zhou Nan's smuggling.

Because of Pan Hu, a thief who Zhou Nan trusted very much in his previous life, and Chen Xiaoning used the power relations at the top, under the "planting tactics" that came to him, Zhou Nan was caught off guard and finally fell, and then, all the market resources of Feiteng Group were successfully taken over by Heilan Group.

The Feiteng commercial kingdom collapsed, and Zhou Nan himself also perished, and more than ten years of struggle came to naught. For Zhou Nan, this kind of hatred is not deep or heavy! Such hatred and resentment are wrapped in all kinds of negative emotions in the past and present lives, how could Zhou Nan forget!

But at this moment, Zhou Nan can't do anything yet. In his rebirth plan, his re-confrontation with Chen Xiaoning is far from beginning.

Standing at the gate of Haida University and staring for a moment, Zhou Nan adjusted his mentality, turned his head calmly and walked into the cultural market. In a remote corner of the market, he found a stall owner selling discs. In front of the stall, a few young people were squatting around with discs or tapes.

Zhou Nan walked over slowly. A cold wind blew and penetrated into his neck, and Zhou Nan couldn't help but shiver, and then wrapped his coat tightly and raised his collar.

After taking a few steps, a footstep flashed past him hurriedly.

A different kind of emotion suddenly rose, Zhou Nan's face was cold, and when he looked up, he saw the chic back of a twenty-year-old young man with a medium figure and a very tasteful dress. This is a chic man, so that the back is so chic and elegant, even Zhou Nan can't deny it.

The corners of Zhou Nan's mouth twitched violently, and his face turned red, but he quickly returned to a faint indifference.

Although it is just a back, this back, the back of this man named Chen Xiaoning, even if it turns into ashes, Zhou Nan can recognize it!

What is Chen Xiaoning doing here? This was Zhou Nan's first thought.

Could it be ...... Zhou Nan's heart was suddenly shocked, and when he looked at it, he saw Chen Xiaoning walking up to the stall owner who was selling discs, taking out a disc from his pocket, as if he was arguing with the stall owner about something.

Zhou Nan's eyes suddenly flickered. He really didn't expect that Chen Xiaoning would also be a mouthful. When he came here to investigate the situation with the mentality of "solving the case", Chen Xiaoning suddenly appeared and had some kind of connection with "Talking Saucers...... However, this is actually nothing, and Zhou Nan feels that he can't be too sensitive.

Even though Chen Xiaoning is his enemy of life and death, Zhou Nan will not stiffly associate Chen Xiaoning who appeared by chance with the perverted killer, this kind of thing that refers to the deer as a horse, Zhou Nan still can't do it.

It was a sudden, fateful encounter.

Zhou Nan shook his head, forcibly expelled all kinds of bad emotions that filled his heart, and stood aside and stared at Chen Xiaoning coldly, until Chen Xiaoning changed a disc and left, and Zhou Nan also left. However, before leaving, Chen Xiaoning said hello to several "like-minded people" around him who seemed to be familiar with each other, which made Zhou Nan's heart move.

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Back at the company, sitting in his office, Zhou Nan silently combed through his current messy thoughts.

For this case, he vaguely grasped something in his heart, but what it was a blur. Thinking about it, I had a splitting headache, and I smiled bitterly and asked for the surname to stop thinking about it. After all, he is not a criminal investigator, and he lacks professional reasoning ability, so it is not an ordinary difficulty to find the real clues to solve the case from all kinds of chaotic clues.

However, in addition to the clues of playing discs and relatively elegant European and American Gothic classical music, there is another detail of the case that has attracted Zhou Nan's attention.

In the clues released by the Haidu police, there is such an inconspicuous statement: the victim Zhang Xiumei and three female workers rented a private house to live in, and the night before she died, Zhang Xiumei did not go back to live, but her bed was spread out, neatly spread out, and it was made to sleep in advance, until after her death, the police found the rental house, and her bed was still very neat and intact.

The connection between the two seems to indicate that Zhang Xiumei and the murderer know each other, and it can even be said that they have some kind of intimate relationship. It is possible that she stayed overnight at the killer's place and was killed around noon the next day.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Nan immediately grabbed the phone and called his father Zhou Ningyu, but no one answered.

As soon as I put down the phone, I heard someone knock on the door, so I said in a deep voice, "Come in." ”

Zhang Hongxia walked in with a smile, and her smile slightly brought out a hint of flattery.

For this snobbish woman, Zhou Nan was very disgusted, and it was not his wish to let her serve as the director of his comprehensive office. But he has just been promoted, and Zhang Hongxia was brought down from above, so he can't say anything for the time being.

"Manager Zhou. According to the arrangement of the head office, our Xinghai company will organize a few people to go to Xiangzhou and Hong Kong before the end of the year to further finalize the cooperation project with Langli Energy Investment Group...... This time I went on a business trip, because I had to report the plan to the head office in advance, and at the same time, I also had to submit it to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the Construction Commission for approval, so I got an application and a plan, and you can see if there is anything that needs to be modified......"

"You can put me here first." Zhou Nan smiled faintly and nodded.

Zhang Hongxia put the folder on Zhou Nan's desk, hesitated for a moment and said softly, "Manager Zhou, the business management department and the finance department of the head office have urged several times, you'd better hurry up and take a look, and I'll report it." ”

Zhou Nan sighed, grabbed the folder and opened it and browsed it. Seeing that he began to look, Zhang Hongxia stood there quietly, did not continue to leave, but waited silently.

There was no problem with the application and the plan itself, and Zhou Nan swept it away. But when his eyes fell on the list of people who rushed to Xiangzhou and Hong Kong for inspection, he frowned slightly.

didn't discuss anything with Zhang Hongxia, he didn't hesitate, took the red pen and crossed out the names of Kang Zhan Guo and Zhang Hongxia, and replaced them with Sun Xiaolan, a staff member of the General Office, and another salesman from the business department.

To be honest, this kind of business trip is said to be to discuss cooperation with the other party, but in fact it is a public-funded tour. Xiangzhou is fine, but there is also Hong Kong's itinerary arrangement, Zhang Hongxia and Kang Zhan Guo are naturally unwilling to let go of this opportunity to travel.

Seeing Zhou Nan crossed out the names of herself and Kang Zhanguo, Zhang Hongxia's face immediately turned red, and she looked at Zhou Nan very unhappily, but she couldn't say a word.

The so-called official university level crushed people to death, Zhou Nan is the manager of Xinghai Company, he has the absolute right to decide who to go to and who not to let him go on the travel list that he has reported, and Zhang Hongxia can only watch her trip to Hong Kong go to waste.

"Lao Kang and I can't both leave, we have to leave one at home to preside over the work. There are also a lot of things at home, Director Zhang should stay busy with the company's basic work, we have just started operation, and there are still a lot of things to deal with——"

In addition, two more places in the inspection team were set aside for the leaders. Mr. Meng and Mr. Zhao will personally lead the team if they have time in the near future. That's it, you immediately report to the head office in the form of an official document and ask Mr. Meng for approval. Zhou Nan waved his hand lightly, ignoring Zhang Hongxia's embarrassed and dissatisfied face.

"Okay." Zhang Hongxia smiled reluctantly, squeezed out a "good" word from between her teeth, and then immediately turned around and left with the document.

Looking at her back as she left in a huff, Zhou Nan smiled coldly, but he didn't take it to heart anymore.

Zhang Hongxia returned to her office unhappily, and her face immediately became gloomy. She threw the folder to Sun Xiaolan angrily, and said coldly, "You come to change this document, report to the head office after the change, and ask Mr. Meng to sign for approval." ”

Sun Xiaolan and Zhang Hongxia have worked in the same office for many years, and their relationship is not bad. Seeing that Zhang Hongxia's face was not good-looking, she asked with a smile, "Sister Zhang, what's wrong with you, why did it suddenly turn cloudy." ”

"Do your thing, what nonsense." Zhang Hongxia's eyes widened and she scolded angrily. In fact, she didn't have any opinion on Sun Xiaolan, but Zhou Nan changed her name to Sun Xiaolan, which made her unhappy and jealous, and correspondingly, her attitude towards Sun Xiaolan was much worse.

Sun Xiaolan was a little inexplicable, she wanted to get up and reason with Zhang Hongxia, but she remembered that she was a leader and a subordinate, and it was not good for her to tear her face, so she gritted her teeth and endured it.

However, in the process of revising the document, she saw that Zhou Nan changed Zhang Hongxia's name to her own, and then she suddenly realized that Zhang Hongxia was delicious.

But what can she do to eat it...... Now Xinghai Company is Zhou Nan who has the final say, no matter how unhappy he is, he will stare dryly!

Sun Xiaolan secretly glanced at Zhang Hongxia proudly, and saw that the other party was turning his head to look out the window and sulking alone, and a gloating smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. At the same time, her heart suddenly became excited, her family background is average, small family, she has never been far away, and the farthest is only to the provincial capital a few times, this time she can go to Xiangzhou and Hong Kong with public funds, how can she not be happy.

Kang Zhan Guo slowly walked into the office, and greeted Sun Xiaolan and Zhang Hongxia with a smile, "Little Sun, what are you busy with?" Lao Zhang ......"

"Manager Kang." Sun Xiaolan smiled and looked up and nodded to Kang Zhanguo, and then subconsciously glanced at Zhang Hongxia, who had just turned her head with an unsightly face.

Zhang Hongxia looked at Kang Zhanguo and sighed and complained, "Manager Kang, the matter of me and you participating in the delegation to Xiangzhou is yellow......

"How?" Kang Zhan Guo frowned, "Doesn't the head office approve it?" ”

"I haven't reported it to the head office yet. We can't pass this level just within us......" Zhang Hongxia sneered, "Manager Zhou didn't agree with the two of us going, so he replaced it with Xiao Sun and Xiao Wang from the business department." ”

Kang Zhanguo's face changed suddenly, and he became gloomy. However, the gloom on his face quickly dissipated again, and he glanced at Sun Xiaolan and said with a faint smile, "It's okay not to go, Manager Zhou and I are gone, who will come to see the house?" Lao Zhang, it doesn't matter if you can't go this time, there will be a chance next time. Besides, we don't go out for tourism but for work! ”

As he spoke, Kang Zhan Guo sat down behind his desk, picked up the newspaper and browsed it casually. However, his face, which was hidden behind the newspaper, instantly became hideous, and the corners of his mouth were tightly bitten, like a ferocious beast.

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Zhou Nan probably didn't expect that he would show a big face in front of a group of police officers and criminal investigation experts, thus having the nickname "Great Detective Zhou Nan".

Zhou Nan's several opinions to his father Zhou Ningyu aroused strong repercussions within the task force, and Zhou Nan was invited to attend the case analysis meeting attended by Liu Xiangdong, secretary of the municipal party committee, and Huang Zhen, secretary of the political and legal committee.

When he received a call from the duty room of the Municipal Bureau to inform him of the invitation, Zhou Nan couldn't believe his ears.

The reason why he cares about this case is mainly for the future of his father Zhou Ningyu.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ningyu said his son's views on this case in a half-joking tone at the regular meeting of the task force, which immediately attracted the attention of experts and relevant leaders of the provincial department.

Zhou Nan was reluctant to be exposed in front of the stage, especially because he didn't understand the criminal investigation business at all, but based on his own information advantages and comprehensive judgment, he raised several suspicious points that the police had ignored in the past.

However, when he heard that Secretary Liu of the Municipal Party Committee would participate in the case analysis meeting this time, Zhou Nan immediately changed his mind and agreed to participate.

Anyway, he just participated in the discussion as a citizen representative, and he was not a criminal investigation expert, so it didn't matter if he said some layman's words. The emphasis is on participation, performance, and it is also a rare opportunity to fully show yourself in front of Liu Xiangdong, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.

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"Next, I welcome the citizen representative, Comrade Zhou Nan of Haidu Petroleum and Gas Corporation to speak." Li Xincheng, deputy head of the task force presiding over the meeting, smiled and raised his hand to Zhou Nan, who was sitting in a corner.

Of course, it is no secret that Zhou Nan is Zhou Ningyu's son, but today Zhou Nan did not participate in this case analysis meeting as Zhou Ningyu's son, but as a citizen representative. In other words, this case-analysis meeting, which was attended by leaders of the municipal party committee, was attended by citizen representatives in a form of showmanship, deliberately catering to the mentality of the upper-level leaders who were close to the people -- it could be regarded as a disguised implementation of the spirit of Liu Xiangdong's previous instructions.

As for the fact that this citizen representative is Zhou Nan, it is just a coincidence.

Zhou Nan got up calmly, glanced at his father Zhou Ningyu, and then looked around at everyone and said loudly, "Leaders, experts, I don't know about criminal investigation, I just care about this case and have my own opinions." Now I will talk about it briefly, if you say layman's words, please don't laugh at the leaders. ”

"In this case, it seems that the murderer's layout is not leaky, but in fact, there are many suspicious points. First, I believe that the murderer and the female deceased Zhang Xiumei were acquaintances, and even had an ambiguous relationship, which can be seen from the fact that the deceased disguised her bed as sleeping before her death, and it was not an accident that she did not return the night before her death, but was prepared for a long time. Is this the first time she's not home at night? ”

"Second, the female deceased came out of the countryside and her income was not high, so she could have a CD Walkman, what does this mean? In my opinion, it is very likely that the murderer sent it. ”

"There is another key point, I don't know if the police have noticed that there are discs and tapes in Zhang Xiumei's relics...... This kind of music is obviously not something that a female weaver likes to enjoy, and it is possible that it is an object left by the murderer at the deceased's place. At the very least, there is a close relationship with the deceased. Therefore, the police should investigate the relationship between the female deceased in the past six months in all directions, and not limit it to her circle of acquaintances......"

"As far as I know, there is only one place in our city that sells DJs, and that is the cultural market at the east gate of Haida. And it is also a place where slit music lovers often gather. This circle is not big, and they should all know each other...... I think that the police can start from this aspect, dig deeper, and will definitely dig out important clues! ”

"Now let's go back and talk about the murderer. Because of his excellent anatomical skills, this gives us the illusion that the murderer's profession must be related to being a doctor or a butcher. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, who said that the one who can kill a pig must be a butcher? Speaking of this, Zhou Nan laughed, but the members of the task force, experts from the provincial department and others present did not laugh, and listened carefully to Zhou Nan's next words.

Such a young man, who does not understand criminal investigation, pointed to the crux of the case with a few fluttering words, and put forward several key breakthroughs that can be made, which brought a ray of light to the deadlocked case investigation.

Xing Qiang, the deputy head of the criminal police detachment, looked at Zhou Nan in surprise, and said in his heart that this kid is not simple, the head of analysis and reasoning is the way, and he points to the crux of the problem - and these are exactly what they have ignored.

"On the whole, I guess and judge that the age of this murderer should be between twenty and forty years old, because he completed the process of murder and autopsy in just a few hours, it is impossible without abundant and extraordinary physical strength, but because his economic conditions are relatively good, it is impossible to be too young; Highly educated, highly educated, and petty bourgeoisie, which can be seen from his fondness for oral music...... If you follow these clues, you may be able to dig up the traces of the murderer. ”

Zhou Nan smiled again after speaking, "I'll just say so much, talk about some personal opinions, and ask the leaders and experts to criticize and correct." ”

Zhou Nan sat down slowly, and after a temporary silence, thunderous applause immediately broke out on the field.

Zhou Ningyu glanced at his son excitedly, and a look of pride and pride involuntarily appeared on his face. There is no parent who doesn't want his son to be promising, and now for Zhou Ningyu, his son is not promising, but too promising......

Where did he come out of these twists and turns? Is there anything else he doesn't understand? Such a strange thought suddenly floated in Zhou Ningyu's heart.

Liu Xiangdong also reserved and applauded with everyone, cast an approving glance at Zhou Nan, turned sideways and smiled at Zhou Ningyu beside him and asked, "This young man is very insightful and reasonable, I think you should pay attention to his opinion - by the way, which unit is he?" ”

Hearing Secretary Liu ask about his son, Zhou Ningyu smiled and before he could say anything, Li Xincheng, deputy director of the Haidu City Public Security Bureau on the side, took over the conversation and interjected with a smile, "Secretary Liu, you don't know yet, this young man is Comrade Ning Yu's son Zhou Nan, a top student of Guanghua School of Management of Jinghua University, who works in Haidu Petroleum and Gas Corporation. ”

"Oh? Comrade Ning Yu's son?! Yes, yes, it's really the son of a dragon born of a dragon and a phoenix and a mouse is born to make holes - the policeman's son can solve cases, which is understandable, hehe! Liu Xiangdong's clear voice echoed in the conference room, and everyone smiled casually, looking at Zhou Nan with something more in their eyes.

"The policeman's son will solve the case" or "Detective Zhou Nan" is just a joke, but because of this, Zhou Nan, a young man, left a deep impression on Liu Xiangdong. And this is exactly what Zhou Nan needs.

(To be continued)