The sky was overcast, and occasionally a light rain drifted down, and the boredom disappeared before you knew it.

Hou Jianjun rode a sidecar motorcycle and drove Lu Zheng and Du Xiaohu through the streets and alleys of the county seat, although their actions seemed to be irregular, but in fact they were visiting some special markers on Lu Zheng's map.

According to the home addresses of the three victims in a row, the living area and the location where the remains of the bodies were found after the disappearance, the county bureau originally demarcated the possible area where the murderer was located, of course, this dangerous area covers half of the county, and the police have visited every household in the dangerous area, but they have not been able to find any clues, until Zuihou, on the edge of this demarcated area, caught Li Weijun.

Lu Zheng is now coming back to the possible place of residence of the originally demarcated murderer, hoping that in this area, he can find out the clues in his heart.

It's just that the task force is about to announce the closure of the case, and there is really no one available in the bureau, so Lu Zheng had no choice but to call Hou Jianjun.

Before Gao Zhikai handles this case like an ironclad case, a breakthrough must be found.

Hou Jianjun carried Lu Zheng and Xiao Du, but he was at a loss in his heart, he didn't know what he was doing, the case was about to be completed, Lu Political Commissar had to find fault, and he still followed in, if Gao Zhikai knew, wouldn't he put himself to death?

It's just that although Political Commissar Lu has lost power, he can't shirk it right away and not help him, and he can't do this from a personal point of view, otherwise it will be too snobbish.

Hou Jianjun's current mood is to suffer from gains and losses, but to say that the Lu Political Committee will not find any clues, through this case to turn over, Hou Jianjun really has no expectations, this year, Lu Political Commissar's style of doing things Hou Jianjun has been clear, but it is similar to his Hou Jianjun's temper, but Hou Jianjun himself knows that his temper will not become a big thing.

In front of a courtyard with black smoke emitting from the chimney, Lu Zheng suddenly signaled Hou Jianjun to stop.

The courtyard is a high-walled compound, and there is a vertical plaque hanging at the gate of the courtyard, which reads "Guangning County Department Store Ice Cream Factory" in black on a white background.

Lu Zheng sighed and said, "There is also a boiler here." ”

Hou Jianjun said in his heart What happened to the boiler room? Isn't it rare? Just now, he accompanied Lu Zheng to three boiler rooms in a row.

Lu Zheng waved his hand: "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”

Du Xiaohu said with a smile: "It turns out that the ice cream in the building is made here?" "In the summer, in the countryside of Quang Ninh, every village will have merchants who sell popsicles in the streets and alleys, and the most upscale is the "building ice cream", ordinary popsicles cost 2 cents a piece, and the building ice cream sells for 5 cents, and the taste is really good, but for Lu Zheng, who tasted all kinds of ice cream and popsicles in later generations, there is no special feeling.

The iron gate of the compound was open, allowing people to enter and enter freely, and several workers in the courtyard saw Lu Zheng and three strangers entering the factory, and they only looked at them curiously, thinking that they were here to find people. Now the social atmosphere is still good, and small factories do not have so much awareness of prevention.

The boiler room, which clings to the courtyard wall and supplies hot water to the workers and workshops, is large and contains a hill of coal.

The boiler burner was an old worker, with a kind face, but his legs and feet were a little inconvenient, and he was lame, looking at the three uninvited guests, and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Lu Zheng and the three of them were wearing plain clothes, so they took out their work cards and showed them to the old workers, whose faces were solemn and even more suspicious, "What's the matter?" Looking for me? ”

Lu Zheng smiled: "Just take a look, talk about it." ”

So far, the public security police have not been able to truly determine the scene of the murder, and can only conclude that Li Weijun took the victim hostage to his residence and killed him based on his confession.

However, now in Guangning County, the only private car is also in the name of the Commercial Bureau, and the floating population is not very large last year, according to the daily life circle of the three victims, it can be ruled out that they were taken hostage by the murderer to the countryside and killed, and the murder scene must be in the demarcated area, and this makes Lu Zheng have to think of a question, how to deal with the large amount of blood generated when killing and breaking the corpse?

Most of the family homes and family buildings in the demarcated area are early buildings, and several families share kitchens and bathrooms, so the space for the murderer to use the sewer to drain the blood is limited, and it is very easy to be discovered. This suspicion can be explained if Li Weijun is really the murderer, he is a butcher for a food company, and he often brings some bloody pig offal home to deal with, even if he mixes minced human flesh during the period, no one will notice.

But what if Li Weijun is not the murderer? Then the boiler room is also one of the perfect scenes for the commission of crimes, the blood stains splashed on the coal pile are very inconspicuous, and they can be burned very quickly. Of course, if the boiler room is the scene of the murder, then there is one more condition that must be met, that is, the boiler room is in a semi-closed state, and few people enter and exit.

Lu Zheng asked the old worker a little strangely: "In winter, we have been here, but we didn't see smoke coming from the chimney of your compound?" ”

"Winter? In the winter, our popsicle factory stopped production, and the cold storage in the factory was stored for other units, and the boiler room was not burned. As the old worker spoke, he turned back to add coal, and the moment he opened the lid of the furnace with his iron tongs, a wave of heat rushed to his face.

"Bang", the lid of the furnace was closed, and a lot of dust drifted up in the boiler room.

Hou Jianjun was choked by this cold and hot and uncomfortable, slapped the soil on his body, and scolded: "Damn, it's really not a place for people to stay." ”

This is a bit scolding, the old worker is good-tempered and does not squeak, but Lu Zheng still keenly saw a trace of anger in his eyes.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Master, usually people rarely come to the boiler room, right?" ”

An inexplicable emotion flashed in the old worker's eyes, and then, he lowered his head to pull the coal, and said casually: "No, someone always comes." He was very careful, and he kept the coal blocks on the periphery neatly, and he didn't even allow small pieces of coal like tofu scum to be scattered outside the coal pile.

Looking at his movements, Lu Zheng's eyes condensed slightly. This is a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and this type of person has some mental problems to some extent, of course, it cannot be equated with mental illness.

Out of the popsicle factory, Du Xiaohu was a little dissatisfied with Hou Jianjun's embarrassing words just now, and said: "The old man is dedicated and shines in the most difficult position, political commissar, is this what you often say about love and dedication?" ”

Lu Zheng smiled, a little absent-minded.

He was thinking about this old master surnamed Wang, before the Spring Festival, when the task force searched this area door to door, the boiler room was a fire break, so when he turned his suspicious eyes to the boiler workers, he did not notice this boiler room, and now, the boiler room and Master Wang entered his field of vision very abruptly, which changed many previous case analysis.

All three were killed last summer and early fall, in other words, when the boiler room was functioning normally.

Today, Master Wang's performance is also very strange, obviously the three of them have just stayed for more than two hours, and no one else can see one, he just said that there are always people coming to the boiler room.

Of course, maybe Master Wang just because of his self-esteem, especially after hearing Hou Jianjun's unintentional hurtful words, he lied and said that many people would come to his boiler room because of his self-esteem, to show that "this is a place for normal people".

This subtle state of mind is Lu Zheng's perception after reading all kinds of situations in the world in his two lives, if it was before he was reborn, Lu Zheng would not have been able to understand it.

But what if it's not self-esteem? Master Wang, it is very convenient to turn the boiler room into his criminal paradise, there are too many clutter in the boiler room, it is not a problem to hide the corpse, and it is easier to dismember and transport it out at night.

Moreover, Master Wang also seems to have some kind of mental distress.

Lu Zheng thought about it and said to Hou Jianjun: "Jianjun, go back and help me wash the bottom of this master Wang." ”

Hou Jianjun is arguing with Du Xiaohu for Master Wang, in fact, he is not as childish as Du Xiaohu, but he likes Du Xiaohu very much, and he just likes to quarrel with him.

Lu Zheng said helplessly: "Are you happy enemies?" If it's a man and a woman, I think you're a good match. ”

Hou Jianjun grinned, but asked in surprise: "Do you suspect this old man?" ”

Lu Zheng said: "It's just a casual check." He looked at his watch, it was past twelve o'clock, and said, "Let's go, let's eat." ”

In the past two years, private restaurants and snack bars have sprung up in the county, and the ice cream factory is adjacent to No. 1 Middle School, and opposite the gate of No. 1 Middle School, there is a snack bar, without a signboard, which sells steamed dumplings.

There were not many people in the shop, Lu Zheng and the three of them sat by the window, asked for three drawers of steamed dumplings, dipped in vinegar and ate them, cabbage-stuffed dumplings, almost no meat, but steaming, quite delicious.

At the other table, there was a man and a woman, both young people, in their twenties, the man was wearing a jacket, the woman was wearing the improved beige women's suit trousers that are now popular in Oshan, white and beautiful, and when I looked at the two people's dress, I knew that they were not only working in the county, but also must have seen the world and lived in the big city.

The girl kept looking at Lu Zheng, and seeing that Lu Zheng and the three of them had finished eating quickly and were about to leave after checkout, the girl suddenly stood up, hesitated, tentatively, and shouted to Lu Zheng, "Comrade, you, you are Lu Zheng, right?" ”

Lu Zheng was stunned and glanced at the girl a few times, but he was not impressed.

Hou Jianjun smiled maliciously, he had never seen Lu Zheng interact with young women, and he really wanted to know how this black-faced Bao Gong, who usually reprimanded people with a serious face, got along with girls.

At this time, the girl was already sure that the other party was the person she was looking for, so she ran over happily and said, "Brother Zhengzi, I'm Liu Xiaohui, you really don't know me?" ”

As she spoke, she brushed up the bangs that fell from her forehead, and held her face with both hands to show Lu Zheng, this action added a little cuteness to her.

Lu Zheng sighed, looked carefully, and said, "Little fat dun'er? Looking at the corners of her eyebrows, she gradually remembered who she was, she was her playmate when she was a child in Nanying, when she ran away from her adoptive father's and adoptive mother's house, she was still a snotty little fat girl, but she didn't want a few years to pass.

"What!" Hearing Lu Zheng call her nickname when she was a child, Liu Xiaohui was disgusted, her face was slightly red, but the great joy of reuniting after a long absence quickly washed away the shyness, and she asked anxiously: "Brother Zhengzi, when did you come back?" The third uncle and three aunts are not interesting enough, I went back to my hometown in Nanying for the Chinese New Year this year, and they also went back, but I didn't hear them say that you went back to Guangning. He also said, "Brother Zhengzi, I recognized you at a glance, and your appearance has not changed much." ”

Lu Zheng is tender, and he is indeed only slightly more mature than when he was a teenager, and most of his friends who have not seen him for many years can recognize him.

The three uncles and three aunts in Liu Xiaohui's mouth are Lu Zheng's adoptive father and adoptive mother, Lu Guobin and Ma Cuihong.

Lu Zheng smiled, and he didn't know how to explain it to her, but when he heard the meaning of Liu Xiaohui's words, his adoptive father and adoptive mother were no longer in Nanying, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Where did Aunt Cuihong and her uncle-in-law live?" "When Lu Guobin and Ma Cuihong adopted him, he was 8 years old and very sensible. And Ma Cuihong and his adoptive mother who died of illness are best friends and sisters, so he has always called them so according to the old name, as for his heart, he called Lu Guobin by his name, because unlike Ma Cuihong's sisterhood in the past, Lu Guobin treated Lu Zheng extremely badly, beat and scolded, and agreed to adopt Lu Zheng, completely for the sake of many small laborers.

Liu Xiaohui sighed and said, "You haven't changed your words yet." Then he was stunned, understood the taste, and said, "Didn't you find the third uncle and three aunts, you don't know where they live?" ”

Lu Zheng now also feels that his twenties before his rebirth are a bit excessive, after all, Aunt Cuihong is very good to herself, but she can't be the master at home, so she said vaguely: "I just came back, so I ......"

Liu Xiaohui suddenly said, "In this way, your family is now okay and has moved to the city." The third uncle brought the third aunt out the year before last, found a job for the third aunt, and worked in a kindergarten in a fertilizer factory. ”

Lu Zheng sighed, Lu Guobin used to be a worker in a fertilizer factory, and Aunt Cuihong was a farmer at home. Lu Guobin has worked hard in the factory for decades, and he should have been able to bring his family to the city a long time ago.

"By the way, do you know where they live? I'll take you? Liu Xiaohui's face was full of excitement.

In fact, when he saw Liu Xiaohui, Lu Zheng was far from being as calm as he appeared on the surface, he remembered a lot of past events, in Nanying, although there were many nightmarish memories, there were also warm pasts, such as his little playmates.

"Don't worry," Lu Zheng waved his hand, looked at Liu Xiaohui and said, "What about you, what are you doing now?" ”

Liu Xiaohui said playfully: "Guess? To give you a hint, I achieved my ideal. ”

Lu Zheng said with a smile: "Congratulations, congratulations, you have really become a people's teacher, okay, you have become an intellectual who teaches and educates people." ”

Seeing that Lu Zheng still remembers her ideals when she was a child, Liu Xiaohui's heart is also warm, she is a few years younger than Lu Zheng, Lu Zheng was the child king of Nanying Commune, the most capable little devil, and the idol she once admired, and now she recalls the bits and pieces of her childhood, she is so carefree.

At this time, Lu Zheng pointed to the school gate of the No. 1 Middle School opposite and asked, "Teaching here?" ”

Liu Xiaohui said a little shyly: "Sort of, but I graduated from a secondary school and taught junior high school in No. 1 Middle School." ”

Lu Zheng said: "That's also very powerful." Hearing that Liu Xiaohui was a teacher in No. 1 Middle School, Lu Zheng couldn't help but move in his heart.

At this time, the young man who was with Liu Xiaohui couldn't hold back, his face was a little dissatisfied, and he took two steps and asked, "Xiaohui, who is this?" ”

Liu Xiaohui giggled and said, "Look at me, I'm all carried away, come, I'll introduce you to ......" Spread his palm to Lu Zheng and said to the young man: "This handsome guy is Lu Zheng, the commander-in-chief of our Nanying 'Red Movement' back then, you can call Mr. Lu or Brother Zhengzi." He said to Lu Zheng again: "This is Qin Mingming'......" After a little hesitation, he added: "My boyfriend." ”

Liu Xiaohui was delicate, she felt her boyfriend's dissatisfaction, and she also felt that she had just shown too close to Lu Zheng, and she shouldn't have left Qin Mingliang aside, although Zhengzi was like her own brother, but she couldn't affect her relationship with Qin Mingliang for Zhengzi, so she announced the identity of Qin Mingliang's boyfriend.

Qin Mingming's face was a little pale, and he looked at Lu Zheng, he had heard of this person from Liu Xiaohui's mouth, and he had the impression that he was a country boy who loved to fight, and now he was estimated to be a big boss. But when I saw me at this moment, I couldn't help but feel that this masculine young man was really a big threat.

Hearing Liu Xiaohui mention "Red Movement", Lu Zheng couldn't help but laugh while reaching out to shake hands with Qin Mingliang.

The "Red Movement" is a young pioneer regiment established in Nanying by admiring the Red Guard organization in a big city when Lu Zheng was a teenager, and his full name is the "Red Movement Young Pioneer Group", while Lu Zheng himself appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of the "Red Movement." Of course, this "organization" was not recognized by the Nanying Revolutionary Committee, and was just a trick of the children. However, in Nanying, it is very famous, and many teenagers are proud to join the "Red Movement".

"Go get busy, Jianjun, don't forget what I entrusted you." Lu Zheng turned around and glanced at Hou Jianjun and Du Xiaohu. Hearing that Liu Xiaohui and Qin Mingliang are both teachers in No. 1 Middle School, and Qin Mingming's parents teach high school, Qin Mingliang lives in the family building of No. 1 Middle School, Lu Zheng has an idea, he is trying to go to the family building of No. 1 Middle School to see if he can find some clues.

Du Xiaohu hesitated, but was dragged out by Hou Jianjun's arm with a smile.

Watching the green sidecar motorcycle spray away, Liu Xiaohuiqi said, "Brother Zhengzi, who are they?" ”

Lu Zheng smiled: "Industrial and commercial, I want to do some small business and ask them to help." This kind of three-wheeled motorcycle is only equipped by law enforcement departments, and Lu Zheng can deal with it casually, just don't reveal his identity as a public security.

The family building of No. 1 Middle School is a new residential area that has just been completed the year before last, and each unit of the unit building is an independent structure, unlike the old residential area, and the kitchen and bathroom are usually shared. The family area of No. 1 Middle School is also located in the area where the murderer may live, and if the murderer lives here, it is very convenient to deal with the residual blood stains.

However, the family building of No. 1 Middle School is occupied by some respected old teachers, and in Guangning, they are all high-level intellectuals, and the task force did not pay too much attention to suspicion here, and Lu Zheng in his previous life was the same.

But now, Lu Zheng has to rethink, what if the murderer is among them?

Liu Xiaohui was very excited, and said in one breath: "Brother Zhengzi, we have a lot of talents, Xiaoguang was admitted to Beijing Primary School, and there are ...... who work in the city and county, by the way, and Guo Weisong, who is in the Propaganda Department of the Qinglong County Party Committee." ”

Xiaoguang and Xiaosong are Lu Zheng's most friends, the "chief of staff" and "deputy chief of staff" of Hongdong, hearing that they are all out of the picture, Lu Zheng couldn't help but be happy for them, and laughed at himself: "It seems that I am the most foolish." ”

In fact, Xiaoguang and Xiaosong will go to school to study, I have to say that it is related to Lu Zheng's subtlety, Lu Zheng's adoptive mother who died of illness, after all, was a nanny from a high-walled compound, well-informed, and always told Lu Zheng some truths about life, although Lu Zheng often had to participate in labor in primary and junior high school, but his studies were very solid, and his two sworn friends were more or less affected.

However, if you talk about the other people of the Red Movement, in fact, almost all the teenagers from the age of seven to the sixteen or seventeen in Nanying Commune participated in the "Red Movement" at that time, and there were some older than Lu Zheng, but they were not Lu Zheng's personality when they fought, and they could only recognize Lu Zheng's status as "commander-in-chief".

Therefore, although it can be said that there are many talents who have come out of the "Red Movement", after all, it covers almost the entire generation of young people in the commune, but in the end, it is still the majority who live in the farmhouse with their backs to the loess facing the sky.

Liu Xiaohui sighed again at this time and said, "But the most outstanding person in our Nanying is Ma Suzhen......

Lu Zheng was stunned and asked, "Landlord's wife?" ”

Liu Xiaohui smiled and said, "Do you remember her?" ”

Lu Zheng nodded slightly, and had a faint impression, that little girl was four or five years younger than herself, I remember that when I was a child, she was very beautiful, and she was dressed very beautifully, and she looked different from the children in the farmhouse.

Because she has been different from the children in the farmhouse since she was a child, she has the nickname of "landlord's wife", and at that time, there were some pioneers of the Red Movement who were blindly coaxing, and the horse family wanted to fight against the landlord's wife, but Lu Zheng felt that a group of big men should not bully other little girls, so he relieved her.

Therefore, Lu Zheng has an impression of her.

Liu Xiaohui said enviously: "Now she is fine, I heard that her father is now a big official in the city, what about her, after graduating from art school, she worked as an announcer in the city TV station, and she became popular in the city, and she also filmed TV series, no, a while ago, our county TV station invited her to train our announcer, and I heard that the deputy county magistrate drove to invite her." ”

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Really? "I didn't expect the landlord's wife to be so promising, as for saying that the landlord's mother-in-law's father was the leader of the city and the county to pick up Yunyun, Lu Zheng didn't take it to heart, if he said that the official family, he was like a floating cloud.

But isn't it, not to mention that grandpa is one of the most powerful old people in the current republic, let's say that his father Lu Tianhe, as the son of the Lu family, the second generation of leaders, just 50 years old, he is already in the temple, serving as the executive deputy director of the Central Organization Department, one of the most powerful positions at the ministerial level, and his mother Han Jing, like her grandfather, is the youngest female military-level cadre in the Republic since the 70s.

He is the real pride of the sky, but as the youngest son of the Lu family who has been left behind for many years, he is really estranged from the Lu family.

In the next ten years, it should be the heyday of the Lu family, but as the so-called prosperity and decline, with the grandfather failing to survive some old rivals and dying early, his father retired at the age of the station, and the Lu group was defeated in a series of theoretical struggles, the once prominent Lu family finally gradually withdrew from the top power structure of the republic, and because some unscrupulous descendants offended too many people, they were settled by the autumn queen and ended up in a falling tree.

But now I am bound to do everything I can to change all this.

Thinking back on his previous life, Lu Zheng's mood was slightly heavy. Fortunately, Liu Xiaohui suddenly giggled and pulled him back from that oppressive and abnormal feeling.

"Now the landlord's wife has changed her name, her name is Tong Susu, and I don't know if she changed her stage name or her father's original surname is Tong." l Liu Xiaohui said.

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "Don't talk about her, Xiaohui, can you take me to your No. 1 middle school for a walk?" Lu Zheng smiled, no one could see it, but in fact, it was only now that his conversation had entered the main topic.