Mrs. Han died, hanging herself in her own house.

Wang Shangwei, who was in charge of door-to-door water meter reading in Bali Lane, couldn't open the door of Mrs. Han's house, and looked in from the cat hole left under the door.

As a result, I saw a pair of feet hanging in the air, and I was so frightened that I peed my pants.

When the neighbors heard the news, they didn't dare to open the door casually, so they had to call the police.

In less than fifteen minutes, Hong Qifeng, the captain of the Binhai City Criminal Police Brigade, came with a group of criminal police.

The door is locked from the inside.

Hong Qifeng asked someone to open the lock, pushed the door open, and a foul smell came from the room!

Several young detectives who had just joined the team vomited at once.

Hong Qifeng frowned and looked back at them, wanting to say a few words, but held back again.

The smell of corpses emitted after the death of people in these six days is indeed not something that ordinary people can bear.

Bali Lane, which is one of the few old housing areas in the city, has almost been demolished by the surrounding houses. The house is two floors long.

The deceased Mrs. Han lived in the westernmost part of the second floor, and the house was also very old, but the things were neatly arranged, and it should have been carefully cleaned up by Mr. Han on weekdays.

The home was very clean, one could even say, a bit too clean.

Hong Qifeng asked the forensic doctor and the scene investigation team to take pictures and collect evidence first, and he also entered the room and began to take a closer look.

He approached Mrs. Han's body, which was still hanging in mid-air, and looked up at the rope hanging from the roof beam, thoughtfully.

"Team Hong, did you hang yourself?" Someone asked him behind his back.

Hong Qifeng looked back and saw that he was a young criminal policeman who had just joined the team, and his name was Liu Haoran.

The person who just smelled the stench and vomited at the door was also one of them.

But he's not bad, and he still came in to study despite the discomfort, unlike the ones who lingered at the door.

Thinking of this, Hong Qifeng's face softened a little: "Xiao Liu, what do you think?" ”

"The door was closed and locked from the inside. The windows are open, and although this is only the second floor, the first floor here has been illegally roofed with many sun panels. Liu Haoran said as he walked to the window.

"This thing is light and thin, and it can't be used by people. And there are no traces of damage, basically ruling out the possibility that someone left through the window. After speaking, he looked at Hong Qifeng and waited for the captain's comment.

"That's good, Xiao Liu." Hong Qifeng had a hint of a smile, but the smile flashed.

He frowned again and said, "However, this scene is not so simple." ”

"What?" Liu Haoran looked surprised, he thought that his analysis just now was already very nuanced.

Hong Qifeng knew that the young people who had just left the police academy wanted to be in the limelight as soon as possible, so as not to let the old comrades look down on him.

He used to come over like this, but seventeen years of experience as a criminal police officer told him that if he was in a hurry, he was prone to loopholes.

Hong Qifeng didn't answer Liu Haoran immediately, but pointed to Mrs. Han in mid-air and said, "Take a closer look." ”

Liu Haoran started from the rope and looked down little by little, until he saw the tips of his feet.

Then he confirmed: "The signs of this corpse are that the face, lips, cheeks, ears, fingertips and other parts have obvious blue and purple, and from this angle, the groove on her neck also conforms to the characteristics of hanging." ”

Hong Qifeng nodded slightly, and whispered: "What you said is right, but there are two doubts, first, you look at the height of the toes from the ground. ”

Liu Haoran looked at it carefully again, compared the chair under Mrs. Han's feet, and suddenly had nothing to say: The corpse was hanging too high! Visually inspect your feet at least 30 cm away from the chair.

Hong Qifeng said: "With such a height, with the height and age of the deceased, is it possible to easily put a rope on his head?" ”

Liu Haoran shook his head guiltily, he didn't see such an obvious suspicion.

"Second," Hong Qifeng said, pointing to a single-edged knife on the table next to him, "this knife is very suspicious." ”

Liu Haoran couldn't figure it out and asked: "I admit the first question, but there is no obvious external injury, this knife is definitely not a murder weapon, why is it suspicious?" ”

Hong Qifeng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It stands to reason that this knife shouldn't appear here, this is a multi-purpose kitchen slicing knife, and it is too big to cut fruits or other things." ”

He took a few steps around the room and continued, "Look at this room again, the kitchen is far away from this side, why would a kitchen knife appear so far away from the kitchen?" ”

Liu Haoran was speechless, and after thinking for a long time, he asked timidly: "Could it be that this is a case of murder in a closed room?" ”

Hong Qifeng shook his head and said, "I can't draw conclusions yet, I'll wait for the forensic examination." Let's go, we went to ask the neighbors in the neighborhood and the first person to find the deceased. ”

The first person to be questioned was Wang Shangwei, who read the water meter.

"Tell me about it." Hong Qifeng handed a cigarette to Wang Shangwei, and asked after watching him light it with a trembling rope.

Wang Shangwei obviously hasn't come back to his senses yet: "I've always copied the water meter in Bali Lane." This morning, I knocked on the door and couldn't knock on it. Ah, by the way, I actually knocked it yesterday, and I didn't knock it yesterday. ”

He took a puff on his cigarette, calmed down, and said, "After a few knocks, no one answered." I was about to leave, but suddenly I heard a cat barking inside, so I looked down through the cat hole below. Behold, my mother······"

He quickly took two more puffs of cigarette: "I saw a pair of feet hanging in the air, motionless. I was so scared that I almost lost my breath. ”

"There's a cat in there?" Hong Qifeng asked.

"That's right, Mrs. Han has a cat, and every time I come to read the meter, I see her holding the cat."

"What kind of cat?"

"Gray, pretty big."

"What about cats?"

"Then I don't know."

Hong Qifeng nodded, remembering the open window.

Wang Shangwei said just a few words, Hong Qifeng had to temporarily let him go back first, after all, he was still wearing his own wet pants.

The second person to be questioned was the neighbor Li Shiyun, and the family of three lived next door to Mrs. Han's house, only Li Shiyun was at home, and his wife took the children to the tutoring class.

Hong Qifeng asked, "How long has it been since I saw Mrs. Han?" ”

Li Shiyun said: "I usually see less, one is that I am very busy with work, and the other is that this old lady generally does not go out much, and a few times I see her going out to walk the cat." ”

"Aside from the old lady and the cat, who usually comes to her?"

"I didn't see much people looking for her." Li Shiyun thought for a while: "Oh yes, she has a son, I came here last weekend when I was on break, and that was the first time I saw her son in so long that I lived here." ”

"Oh?" Hong Qifeng asked curiously: "I don't usually come, so how do you know it's her son?" ”

"A man came here that day, went in and talked to the old lady, the old house is not very soundproof, I heard it vaguely."

When Li Shiyun said this, he pointed to the door of Mrs. Han's house and continued: "Later, I didn't know why, the two of them seemed to quarrel, and then I suddenly heard the door of her house 'bang' shut, and the sound was super loud. ”

"Are you sure it's the sound of the door closing?" Hong Qifeng interjected.

Li Shiyun nodded and said, "Yes." I thought something was wrong, so I went to the door and looked. I just saw the man, standing at the door and knocking on the door and shouting 'Mom', and I realized that it was her son. He shouted a lot, but the old lady ignored him, and then he left. ”

"How long did it take from the time he entered until you saw him at the door?"

"I can't remember the specifics," Li Shiyun thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't be long, maybe about twenty minutes." ”

"Have you seen him come again?"

"I haven't seen it again anyway."

Hong Qifeng nodded thoughtfully.

After asking Li Shiyun, Hong Qifeng called Liu Haoran and asked him to check on Mrs. Han's son, and then brought him to the team to cooperate with the investigation, and specially instructed Liu Haoran not to tell him anything first.

After arranging Liu Haoran, Hong Qifeng continued to ask people near the scene. Including Zhang Aping who cleaned the house, Wei Yushui from the grocery department downstairs, and Lao Sun, the only security guard and electrician in the building.

Lao Sun said that Mrs. Han was a good person, loved her cat very much, and hugged her all day long. It's the same as Wang Shangwei said.

Wei Yushui also said that the old lady was okay, he often delivered goods to her house, and the old lady's house was very clean.

"I bought a new TV some time ago," Wei Yushui remembered and said, "The old lady doesn't look like she will look short-sighted." ”

Zhang Aping said that the old lady is usually very clean, and the front of the door is basically kept spotless. At first glance, he is a person who loves cleanliness, that is, he has a cat, and there are few clutter at the door.

She said and glanced at Li Shiyun's house next door: "Unlike some people who are always dirty in front of the door, plastic bags, and express boxes, the most troublesome thing is the foam inside the express box, which can't be swept up." ”

Asked and asked, they all had similar answers.

Hong Qifeng didn't have a clue, and it happened that the forensic doctor had also finished the scene and was ready to start transporting people and physical evidence back.

He inspected the scene again, and then told the colleagues who stayed behind to protect the scene, and he was ready to return to the bureau first.

When I walked to the door of the unit, I suddenly remembered something, and turned around to find a few young detectives who didn't dare to enter the room before.

"A few of you go on a mission."

"Team Hong, you say."

"Find the cat."