38. Woman flowers

The young man said, "...... I was shouting Bean-Buddha, Bean-Buddha as I pushed the cart forward, and suddenly, I felt that I couldn't push it, and something was stuck under the wheels, and at first glance, it was a snowdrift...... But it didn't look right, because the gray clothes were exposed in the snowdrift, I thought it was someone's thing left here, and when I pulled it out, I realized that it was a dead person, Mom, I was startled, and quickly shouted Dead man, dead man...... I woke up several families in the building in front of me, and these two middle-aged men came down from the building, one of them protected the scene with me, and the other went to the nearby police station to call the police. 【Fengyun Reading Network. Comrade policeman, that's it......"

The tofu seller is telling the truth, and it is true from the on-site investigation.

Tang and the relevant personnel of the technical department who came later conducted the on-site investigation.

The wound of the deceased was clearly in the head, and when the hair was removed, it was found that the ruptured wound on the head was about lO cm long, and a lot of blood and brain plasma were flowing from the head wound, which had frozen on the ground, and on the surface, this was the fatal wound. There were no wounds on the rest of the deceased's body.

The fatal wound on the deceased's head was a hard wound, but it did not look like it was caused by a murder weapon. Moreover, the deceased was neatly dressed and there were no signs of tearing.

From the position where the body was located, the vertical line was facing the balcony of the building behind him, and the door to the balcony on the fifth floor was still open when viewed from downstairs, and the deceased apparently fell to his death from that balcony, hitting his head directly to the ground and shattering his skull.

According to Zhao Yunpeng, a tofu seller, the area where the body was found was completely covered with snow and there were no footprints, indicating that the deceased was killed last night. And it was when it was snowing, because there was snow under the deceased.

According to neighbors, the deceased lived on the fifth floor.

The police found the identity card and work permit on the deceased, confirming that the deceased was Maddie, the general manager of the city Yongtai Trading Company.

The police also found some banknotes, a restaurant invoice, and a bunch of keys on the deceased.

The officers used one of the keys to unlock the door to the room on the fifth floor. The police searched the room and found that the door to the balcony was open and a layer of snow had accumulated in the doorway. Looking down from the balcony, the vertical point is exactly where the body landed. It is estimated that Maddie was planted from the balcony and died.

No footprints were found in the room other than the footprints of the deceased. This proves that there was no one else in the room when the deceased fell from the stairs, and that he was not pushed down the stairs by others.

The police found a suicide note on the desk, pressed by an ashtray. The handwriting of the suicide note is not very neat, like what was done after drinking, and there is only one sentence on the suicide note:

I said goodbye to a world. Traveled to another, better world.

If the handwriting identification is Maddie's handwriting, it can be regarded as a suicide note.

The preliminary conclusion of the on-site investigation was that Maddie committed suicide by falling from a building.

For this preliminary conclusion, Tang is a little bit there, Tang Gan's public security work has not been a day and a half, and he understands that all this does prove that Maddie committed suicide. However, he always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. What's wrong? He couldn't tell, but the feeling was strong.

After the on-site investigation was completed, Tang and the others who had come to the scene to investigate the scene pulled Maddie's body back to the bureau for an autopsy.

When Tang returned to the bureau, it was time to go to work.

The officers of the bureau were all outside to clear the snow. Mei is also among the snow-clearing people. May wore a red sheepskin jacket today, which stood out in the white world.

The soup came to Mei.

"Hey, guy." He greeted her.

"Dude, did you change shifts?"

"Nope. Looks like I'm going to have to get back to work. ”

"*The people didn't come?"

"No, it's out of the scene. I called at 6:30 a.m. to report the incident. ”

"Bad luck."

"No, I feel lucky."

"Why?" Mei's eyes widened.

"Because the deceased was Maddie."

"Your old nemesis?"

"It's him...... Hey, guy, can you come for a moment?"

"What?"

"...... to your dorm"

"Daylight ......"

"No, where do you want to go?" Tang said; "I want to discuss it with you, I have some ideas about this case, and you are my partner."

Mei looked around. "It's all snowing, shall I go?"

Tang said that the answer was not what he asked: "I am waiting for you in the dormitory." ”

Ten minutes later, Tang and Mei arrive at Mei's dormitory together.

May's dorm room is simply furnished, with a single bed, a pair of single sofas with a coffee table, a writing desk and a wardrobe with a large mirror. After all, the female policeman's dormitory is also a women's dormitory, and women's things can be seen everywhere, there are women's gadgets like * on the radiator, there are a bunch of red, green and green plastic hair curls on the coffee table, and there is a bag of sanitary napkins in a green packaging bag at the head of the bed.

Tang once gave advice to Mei's big grinning habit: "Don't put these women's things outside, let outsiders look at how unsightly......" Mei replied with reason: "A woman's room should be like a woman's room, just like your man's room should be like a man's room." Do you want to see an ashtray, a razor, or a couple of empty wine bottles in my room? Also, man, who's coming to my room but you?"

Now, Tang and Mei sat on the sofa, talking across the coffee table. The duo had a habit of not being in the office when discussing the case, but rather in the dormitory, or in Mei's dormitory, or in Tong's dormitory. Anyway, two single men and women are in one dormitory, which is very convenient.

Tang handed the site survey report to Mei.

"You take a look at this first."

May took it and read the report.

"Man, Maddie is suicidal."

After reading the report, May said something like this.

"He's committing suicide?"

Tang repeats Mei's words, but there is clearly a question mark in his repetition.

"The on-site investigation has reached a preliminary conclusion, this is a clear thing, why do you still suspect that Maddie did not commit suicide?" May said again. She reached under the coffee table and took out a handy bag containing some fried melon seeds. In her room, you can always find all kinds of melon seeds: white melon seeds, black melon seeds, spiced melon seeds, fool melon seeds...... At this moment, she poured the melon seeds on the coffee table.

"Come on, man, don't be idle."

Mei grabbed a handful of melon seeds and another handful of soup.

"Still snorting?"

"Bah, beauty."

Tang looked at Mei fixedly, embarrassed to see Mei.

"Man, why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's still beautiful, guy, you see that hole on your left front tooth is getting bigger."

Mei licked the tooth with her tongue.

"Have you noticed, almost all beautiful women have a hole in one of their front teeth."

"Alright, stop talking about pretty women and teeth. Let's talk about your old rival Maddie, why, do you suspect he didn't commit suicide?"

Soup nodded.

"People like him don't kill themselves."

"However, the on-site investigation report has preliminarily proved that he committed suicide."

"I just subconsciously feel that Maddie is not suicidal." Tang spat out a melon seed peel and said, "The moment I saw Maddie's face after her death at the scene, a subconscious suddenly flashed in my brain. You know, guys, police officers have this subconscious when they first take on a case, and that awareness is often a professional intuition, and that intuition is often correct...... Guess what I remembered for that moment......"

"I guessed it."

"What is it?"

"The Meixin drowning case that happened in the reservoir 7 years ago."

A disappointed expression appeared on Yu's face, not because Mei had guessed what he thought was a mysterious idea, but because there was obvious teasing in Mei's expression when she said it.

"You're going to laugh at me again......" Tang said.

"No, I understand, man, as a police officer, the biggest thing I regret is that I think the case should be like this and it turns out like that."

Tang said: "Listen to me, I wondered why I thought of the case seven years ago when I saw Maddie commit suicide. Is it because Maddie's death will make that case a mystery forever? Or do you think Maddie's death is related to that case? Maybe Maddie's sudden death is a continuation of that case?"

"Your imagination is so rich."

"You're laughing at me?"

"No, I'm appreciating your persistence."

Tang smiled.

"If you say stubbornness as persistence, either you are rich in Chinese and Chinese, or you are superb in language art."

"Man, how can you connect Maddie's death to the case from 7 years ago?"

"I'll tell you about that case from seven years ago."

Mei smiled too. Her smile is beautiful, with a woman's charm.

"Man, you've told me 765 times." May exaggerated.

"Then I'll say it again for the 766th time."

Tang really began to talk again, and at that time, a ray of sunlight shone in from the window, which shone right on Tang's face, revealing the piety and chagrin on Tang's face. Mei didn't want to spoil him, so she listened to it.

“…… Seven years ago, I was a small police officer at the reservoir water police station. I was young, in my 20s, and my hair was all black, not like it was gray now. I will never forget that day, it was a Sunday, and there were many people visiting the reservoir. The sky was fine, as people described in the book as cloudless, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and in my opinion, such good weather should not be dead......

However, the day died the man. It was about 11 a.m. that someone came to report that a yacht had capsized, and a man and a woman on the boat had fallen overboard. I hurried to the accident site, the woman had sunk, and the man was lying on the boat that had been overturned and was rescued by the person who found it first...... I hurriedly organized people to salvage, because the reservoir was stable, and after half an hour, the woman was salvage, and she was already dead. Ahem, I will never forget the woman's face, her face was pale with water, and her mouth was open, as if she wanted to cry out what a grievance. Her eyes were wide open, as if she were staring at me......"

“…… I still feel that way years later, and she keeps looking at me. Mei learned the tone of the soup and said: "I can memorize it, just like Xianglin's sister-in-law said that I am so stupid, I am so stupid......"

Tang didn't care about Mei's teasing, and continued to follow his train of thought.

“…… Yes, I still feel this way years later, and she keeps looking at me...... The moment I saw the woman's face, I felt that there was something wrong with this drowning incident, and I couldn't say anything about it...... The local police station also came, and at first they thought it might be a murder, and that Maddie had deliberately overturned the dinghy and drowned Meixin, who couldn't do water.

"Together, we questioned Maddie and conducted a comparative investigation of the scene, and in the end our colleagues at the precinct decided that there was insufficient evidence of murder and that it should be a drowning accident. I don't agree, I fight with them because I have two doubts......"

"I know, it's time for you to talk about Maddie probably swimming and that anonymous letter of accusation, right, man." May chimed in again.

"Yes, those are two suspicions, if Maddie can swim, it is undoubtedly a kind of murder to see him die, but we can't confirm whether Maddie can swim, although it can't be confirmed, but he does have the possibility of swimming...... The anonymous letter, which we received the day after the accident, mentioned that it was suspected that Meixin's drowning was Maddie's murder, however, the anonymous letter did not provide any evidence, and the author of the anonymous letter, like us, was only suspicious...... Of course, the person who wrote the anonymous letter never came forward, and we never found the author of the anonymous letter, so the matter was eventually closed as an accident. It's been 7 years, and this has become a piece of my heart. ”

Tang ended the story that had been hidden in his heart for 7 years, and there was some regret in his tone.

"Click," Mei said, snorting a melon seed, not eating it, "man, after talking for a long time, I still can't hear what the connection between the reservoir drowning case and Maddie's death seven years ago is?"

Tang shook his head, "I can't say anything, I rely on the intuition of a policeman." Guy, I said believe it or not? I feel that not only the drowning case in the reservoir seven years ago is related to Maddie's death, but also the chair belt accident we encountered at the ski resort not long ago, which may be related to Maddie's death. Guy, do you remember that?"

"Of course I do."

"I'm going to talk about my instincts again, don't bother, guy. Didn't we have an encounter with Maddie on the way to the alpine ski resort? At that time, I had a hunch that we would still deal with Maddie.

Really, I also had a hunch when the Aerial Cableway accident happened later, as if the accident was also related to Maddie, because he was there at the time, and he was sitting in chair 16 behind the 14th chair......"

Mei ate the melon seeds.

"Man, put your instincts aside, we want proof, and if you really suspect that Maddie didn't commit suicide, then you need clues, find clues that Maddie didn't commit suicide but was murdered. Man, do you have that kind of clue?"

Tang thought for a while and said: "Judging from the current situation, there are three clues: first, the suicide note found in Maddie's house. According to the on-site investigation, it was found that the suicide note paper was torn from the manuscript paper on the desk of Maddie's house, and the handwriting was checked with the Parker gold pen found from Maddie......

Mei's face showed that charming smile again.

"Man, you're getting it the other way around, it's not a clue to the evidence that Maddie was murdered, it's evidence that proves Maddie is a suicide."

"No, there are questions here: why did Maddie kill herself, for example? His career is going well, his family is happy, and his wife is beautiful...... Guy, think about it, would a man who is all right suddenly commit suicide? Who thinks jumping off a building is fun? Or can you be resurrected after death, you say?"

Mei stopped talking, because Tang had a point.

"The second clue was an invoice from a restaurant found on the deceased. It's this ......"

Tang took the invoice out of his pocket and handed it to Mei.

This is a yellow ordinary hotel business invoice. The time written above is yesterday, and the amount is 54 yuan. The red stamp is "Come in Hotel".

"Man, I don't see any clues in this invoice." Mei returned the invoice to Tang.

The soup was withdrawn from the invoice.

"You can't see a problem with an invoice, but you have to figure out a problem. Guys, the general managers of large companies like Maddie are in and out of big hotels and restaurants, and they usually have food accounts there, and they don't have to pay cash after eating and drinking, just sign and wait until a certain amount of money is counted together.

"And this time, how did General Manager Mai come to this kind of small restaurant for dinner? Or settle in cash. Moreover, the time was last night, the night before he died.

"Then there may be a question here: why would he go to such a small restaurant to eat? Who did he meet here? What did they do? What does this Last Supper have to do with his death?"

Mei stopped squeaking, because she felt that the more Tang said, the more it made sense.

"The third clue is this set of keys." The key rattled in Yu's hand as he handed it to Mei.

"This was found in Maddie.