Lu Xiaoxiao recalled that at the beginning, Li Guo had already begun to talk to Ling Li about Zhou Qingchun.

At the request of Ling Li, who was told by Lu Xiaoxiao, Li Guo completely showed Ling Li the trajectory of Zhou Qingchun's life in the month before his suicide.

On January 20, on the eve of the Spring Festival, Zhou Qingchun went to Ling'an Town from Nanxi City, and it is said that he went to the grave of Ling Li's family to pay respects.

On January 29, during the Spring Festival, Zhou Qingchun and his family returned to their hometown in Yuzhou for five days, and then returned to Nanxi.

On 10 February, the dust settled on Zhong Chengheng's state compensation results, and the accountability procedure was initiated. As the main undertaker of the case, Zhou Qingchun was suspended for investigation.

At this time, there were only ten months left before his retirement.

After that, according to his family, Officer Zhou became more and more silent, drank every day, and had a somewhat violent temper.

For the next ten days, Zhou Qingchun has been wandering around Ling'an Town, that is, Ling Li's hometown, probably investigating the clues of the source.

On March 4 and 5, Zhou Qingchun returned to Nanxi City.

On March 10, Zhou Qingchun was found dead at home. According to the forensic autopsy, he was found three days dead.

In other words, after looking for four witnesses, he committed suicide after collecting a lot of information about the Ling family's situation that day.

If there is any major clue that has been found that causes Zhou Qingchun to doubt his life, then this major clue must have been obtained from the four people he had come into contact with.

Speaking of this, Li Guo pushed the stack of A4 papers in front of him to Ling Li and said, "Look at it, what did those four people Zhou Qingchun contact with before his death say to him." ”

This is a record made by the police after Zhou Qingchun's death, and they recalled and retold the conversation after Zhou Qingchun came to the door that day.

Ling Li didn't even bother to say a word of thanks, and hurriedly lowered her head and looked at it.

Seeing Ling Li take a serious look at the testimony, Li Guo raised his eyebrows at Lu Xiaoxiao, and there was a faint smug smile on the corner of his mouth: "I got this thing so easily, and I have to bear the risk of leaking the secret of the investigation, so you can say how you thank me." ”

Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him sideways, and then sneered coldly: "How about introducing you to a twenty-four filial girlfriend and serving your queen mother with you?" ”

Before Li Guo could answer, Lu Xiaoxiao turned her head again and pretended to be surprised and covered her mouth: "Dwarf oil, forget that as long as there are any women under the age of fifty around you, your queen mother will be full of anger and use provocative skills, I still don't want to be disgusted, just be honest and be a good melon masses, anyway, Ma Bao Nan doesn't need love, just maternal love." ”

These words pierced Li Guo and instantly lost his smile, and he sat with a pale face and didn't say a word. Until Ling Li looked up in confusion half an hour later, neither of them said a word.

Ling Li's eyes rolled around with mosquito coils: "I look at it, and I don't think there's anything wrong?" ”

What Li Guo gave her, Witness One, Wang Chongchuan, 56 years old, a former neighbor of Ling Li's family, the owner of a grocery store, was just across the street from her father's clinic.

Witness 2, Ling Jiacheng, forty-three years old, is still a distant relative of her family, and he lives quite far away from her home, and is close to Laojun Mountain. And at the bottom of the Laojun Mountain, there is a cemetery. Before the town was relocated because of the high-speed rail plan, the dead people were basically buried there.

Witness 3, Qian Yang, was nineteen years old, and he should have been eleven eight years ago, but Ling Li didn't remember that there was such a child near her house at all.

The last one is a homeless man with no official name, nicknamed Iron Head.

He was originally sleeping in the blind stream of Nanxi Bridge Cave, but one year Nanxi wanted to create a civilized city, and a big truck loaded all the beggars in the city and threw them in Ling'an Town, which is more than 30 kilometers away from the city.

Beggars who are in good health would rather walk dozens of kilometers on foot to go back to Nanxi City, where the economy is better. And the body almost didn't want to walk, so he wandered around Ling'an Town, and settled down so far.

Among these four people, Wang Chongchuan and Ling Jiacheng were placed in a township nursing home because they moved to live in Nanxi City, and the homeless man was old and sick.

As for Qian Yang, he failed the college entrance examination last year and is now repeating in a middle school.

The first two people, Ling Li had an impression; The last two, on the other hand, have no memory of who they are and what they look like.

As for what the four said that day, it is even more irrelevant.

Ling Jiacheng said that on the morning of the day of the incident, he saw Ling Jiashu carrying wine to the grave, knocked over the wine bottle halfway through, and went home to get it again.

Wang Chongchuan said that at noon on the day of the incident, Ling Li's mother, Zhang Shouyu, asked Wang Chongchuan before dinner that afternoon to ask his relatives in Yaxian County to buy 20 catties of Gaomiao liquor, and her old Ling wanted to drink it. This is the third time since the beginning of summer.

This Ling Li also knows.

Her father, as a doctor, has always paid attention to his health, and he didn't smoke or drink. However, after the age of 45, that is, a few years before the crime, he had the habit of drinking, and he would drink two taels of wine at dinner almost every day.

Originally, it was also normal, but unexpectedly, Ling Ling's matter was known to all the towns, and her father thought that he had lost face, and he suddenly became addicted to alcohol, drinking almost three meals a day.

I don't know if it was because she had drunk too much wine in those years, and her father's originally stable hand was affected, and sometimes it would tremble, even if it was placed on the table with support, she could feel a slight tremble.

Qian Yang, who was 11 years old at the time, said that when Ling Min passed by his house after school that day, he threw him with a stone. He was angry for a while, but the two of them fought. Later, Qian Yang chased Ling Min to Ling's house to complain, and heard the sound of quarreling from a distance, as if it was very fierce, so that he didn't dare to go in.

Then a very tall man came out of the door, and then he heard the sound of someone crying, scolding, and smashing on the ground.

Ling Li finally remembered this child.

is also a bitter child, his father went to work in the mine just after birth, and he has never returned. The person who went with him said that his father did not die, but followed the boss who came to poach him, and there was no news after that.

In addition, his mother is crazy and has a little mental problem, and basically relied on the help of his neighbors and grew up eating hundreds of meals.

As for the homeless iron head, it was that day when her father left, no one in the clinic rummaged through the cash box, only to find that there was not a cent in the cash box.

Dropping the cash box and turning his head, he happened to meet Ling Ling who was going home.

Seeing that the Ling family's eldest girl was really good-looking, he looked at it twice, but when Ling Jiashu saw it, he was so angry that he scolded him, and knocked on him with a latch.

The latch of their house is a long stick, which is very easy to use as a weapon, and it is wielded with a tiger, and Ling Li himself has chased the disobedient Xiao Min several times with it.

The homeless man was smashed on the spot and did not let go, lying on the ground and rolling around, and then Zhang Shouyu also came out, seeing that the iron head was crying and calling his mother, in order to calm the matter, he gave him twenty yuan, and this is the case.

These four fragments that are completely unrelated, no matter what, Ling Li can't be connected together.

Li Guo saw that she really didn't know the essentials, so she had to forget about the conflict with Lu Xiaoxiao for the time being, and said: "You pay attention to the time and see how to string these events together." ”

Then connect the testimonies of these four people according to the timeline: "In the morning, your father went out to worship, carried a bottle of wine, walked halfway and turned it over, and went home to get it. In the afternoon, your mother went to the grocery store opposite the door to buy alcohol. These two things are very compatible. ”

Ling Li nodded and asked, "And then?" ”

Li Guo quickly flipped through the paper in his hand and pointed to one of the rows of words: "The grocery store owner said that there happened to be a ready-made five-pound Gaomiao liquor in the store, so let your mother bring it back first." She first carried it with her right hand, but she didn't lift it, and then changed to her left hand, and the reason why the boss still remembers this detail after so many years is because there are some differences. ”

He raised his head and his eyes burned: "The boss found that there was a long bruise on her right arm, so he asked casually." Your mother replied that she didn't pay attention when the door was closed, and the latch leaning against the wall fell down and smashed. And on the autopsy report, there is such a paragraph......"

He flipped through the folder and pointed to a section with wavy lines drawn: "There is a scratch on the third knuckle of the left tiger's mouth and the right ring finger, an epidermal peeling wound on the dorsal side of the metacarpophalangeal joint of the left ring finger, three oval epidermal peeling wounds in the right palm, and a bruise and swelling of 10×2 cm with subcutaneous bruising in the upper third of the radial side of the right forearm." Do you remember that your mother had such a wound on her hand? ”

Ling Li thought about it carefully and replied affirmatively: "Yes, there is such a place. ”

She felt a little sour in her heart, and now it seemed that it was just a short sentence in the autopsy report, but she had seen that scar with her own eyes.

Li Guo pushed his glasses and knocked his index finger rhythmically on the table: "Ling Li, is your father left-handed?" ”

"Huh? Right. Ling Li was still trapped in sad memories and couldn't extricate herself, so she nodded and replied in the affirmative.

Her father's dominant hand is indeed left-handed, except for writing, which is the right hand, even if he is pricking a patient, he also uses his left hand.

Li Guo had an expression of "sure enough": "So, the blunt wound on the right arm on the autopsy report is very inconsistent with your mother's own description of being hit by a latch." If the latch had fallen against the wall, it would have been the side arm that had been hit. But your mother's scar is on the ulnar side of the forearm, which is the inner side, unless she has a problem with elbow valgus, how can she hit there? ”

Ling Li frowned tightly and seemed to be unable to turn the corner, Li Guo waited patiently for a while, and then shook his head.

It's a lot of work to talk to people who are slow to react and don't think well, and you have to find a way they can understand and demonstrate visually.

So, he stretched out his arm and pulled out a straw on the service desk next door, and then quickly raised his habit and knocked on Lu Xiaoxiao's head.

After all, he is professionally trained, his movements are fast and accurate, although Lu Xiaoxiao raised his hand to block it, he still hit the move, and then he was furious: "Old virgin, you are looking for death!" ”

Li Guo ignored her offensive language and turned his head to look at Ling Li: "See, right?" When someone attacks you from the front, you subconsciously raise your forearms in front of you. So the bruises on your mother's arms are more like someone attacking with a weapon, and she raised her hand to block it in front of her body. So the shape of her scar is the same as the mark described by the homeless man who was beaten with a latch from your father. ”

Ling Li finally understood his reasoning and frowned: "What does this mean?" ”

Although it was in the form of a question, she was already a little sure in her heart, and there was a faint trace of uneasiness in her heart before, which became more and more intense at this time.