The young gardener was pruning the branches, her movements were slow and attentive, not like a veteran in the field.

I asked Sister Zhou, "How long has this girl been working here?" ”

Sister Zhou said: "More than two months." ”

I frowned and asked, "What about the gardener two months ago?" ”

Sister Zhou said: "I resigned." ”

I said, "Do you have the contact information for the gardener?" ”

Sister Zhou thought for a while and said, "Yes." After saying that, she took out her mobile phone and looked through it, and then told me the name and phone number of the gardener before.

I nodded, stored the information on my phone and said, "Do you have a picture of him and the address where he lives?" ”

Sister Zhou said: "There are also, in the employee files in the office. ”

I said, "Then I'll have to trouble Sister Zhou to provide us with this information later." ”

Sister Zhou nodded in agreement.

I asked, "Is there an office or a break room or anything like that?" ”

Sister Zhou said: "There is a utility room with gardening tools in it, and it is also a place to provide lunch breaks for employees. ”

I said, "Take me to see it." ”

Under the leadership of Sister Zhou, we came to the utility room, and Sister Zhou asked the female gardener to open the door of the utility room.

This utility room is located in a side room in the Quiet Garden, and the door of the house is very quaint. There were some hoes, shovels, buckets and other tools piled up in the house. Of course, those two bags of 'Huawang' fertilizer also made me pay attention to them. There is also a wooden cabinet and a single wooden bed in the room.

This wooden cabinet is a few years old, and the brown paint has fallen off in many places. I opened the cabinet door above and there were handbags, lunch boxes, umbrellas, and mugs, which I guessed belonged to a female gardener.

So he asked the female gardener, "Are these things yours?" ”

The female gardener nodded and said, "Yes." ”

There are two drawers in the center of the cabinet, the left drawer handle has fallen off, and the right drawer handle is still intact.

So I opened the drawer on the right first, and there were some miscellaneous items in it, including scissors, knives, mirrors, screwdrivers, etc. But I noticed something very special in the drawer, a rubber band with velvet thread wrapped around it, and a black hair wrapped around the rubber band.

I knew that this rubber band was not the gardener's, because the gardener's hair was dyed and golden.

But for the sake of accuracy, I still asked the question: "Is this rubber band that ties your hair yours?" ”

The female gardener shook her head without hesitation and said, "I haven't used this rubber band in a long time. ”

I put the rubber band away and opened the handleless drawer on the left, which was filled with plastic pockets, which were messily kneaded and placed inside. I found three plastic pockets, all of which had cartoon shapes and the words "Han Chao F" printed on them.

This kind of small pocket should be a plastic small pocket commonly used in women's jewelry stores, how can such a small pocket appear in this utility room? And there will be three identical plastic pockets?

And I suspect that these little pockets are connected to the fleece rubber bands with black hair.

After confirming that the cartoon plastic pouch was not the female gardener's belonging, I checked the bed again.

The bed had apparently not been used for a long time and had a layer of ash on it. The female gardener told me that she had never taken a morning break in this bed, and that she did not want to take a morning break in this bed.

The bed leans against the white walls and is an old-fashioned single wooden bed with a sky-blue painted bed frame at the head and foot. There was a light blue blanket on the bed, a gray, blue and white pillow, the pillowcase had obviously not been washed for a long time, and there was a layer of sweat stains. The sheets are also gray-blue-and-white stripes, but strangely enough, they look much cleaner than pillowcases after dusting them off, apparently having been washed not long ago.

I ripped off the sheets, looking carefully for any clues that might have been left on them.

Sure enough, on one side of the sheet, I found very faint brown marks, which were in several places, the largest one was the size of a dinner plate, and it was irregular, and the small one was like a soybean dot.

Obviously, this is the mark of blood stains left after washing.

Since there are blood stains on the sheets, there must also be blood stains on the cotton wool laid under the sheets. However, when I examined it, I found that there was no blood on either side of the cotton wool. But this white cotton wool makes me feel suspicious, this is obviously a brand new cotton wool.

So I asked Sister Zhou: "Have you changed the cotton wool on this bed?" ”

Sister Zhou approached and looked at it and said: "It's strange, this cotton wool is new, but it is definitely not the cotton wool of our unit, because the cotton wool of our unit is uniformly made, it is printed with the word 'Xishan', and those cotton wool are some years old, and this bed of cotton wool is definitely not on the unit." ”

I nodded, looked at the edges of the head and foot of the bed, and I had my own conclusion.

After that, I took a plastic bag from the drawer, packed the sheets, and handed them to Lao Lui, ready to take them back to the technical department of the Force for blood DNA testing.

Coming to Sister Zhou's office, Sister Zhou provided us with the home address and photos of the former gardener. Judging from the photo, it is a middle-aged man about thirty-five years old, with a middle score, which is a typical image of a handsome guy in Chongqing.

In the car, I told Lao Lu about my analysis.

First, from the four mud prints found next to the water-absorbing rockery in the Jingyuan and the moss on the surrounding stones, it can be inferred that the sunken stone came from the Jingyuan. Second, the same jute rope was found on the branches of the tree that was used to bind the body bag. Third, there is a 'flower wang' fertilizer in the lounge, so it also has the existence of plastic woven bags.

The above three points prove that the props of the sunken corpse are all from the Silent Garden.

I found five pieces of evidence in the break room. The first is a velvet rubber band with black hair, the second is a plastic bag facing cartoons and 'Han Chao F', the third is a washed bloody bed sheet, the fourth is a replaced cotton wool, and the fifth is the impact marks on the edge of the wooden bed at the foot of the bed.

Let's start with rubber bands. The former gardener was a man, why was there a woman's rubber ring in his break room? I guess this woman has an unusual relationship with a gardener. Then you can do a DNA test of the hair on the rubber band, and if the results match the headless female corpse, then it can be determined that the gardener is related to the headless female corpse.

Speaking of plastic bags, there are three of the same plastic bags, and the degree of new and old is different, indicating that the time and frequency of use of these plastic bags are different. But why are they exactly the same? I have a bold guess that the person who owns this plastic bag is likely to be a regular customer or employee of this 'Han Chao F' store, of course, I prefer the latter.

Finally the bloody sheets, new cotton wool and scuff marks at the foot of the bed. From these three pieces of evidence, I deduced that someone had fallen on the bed and had a small amount of bleeding from his head to the end of the bed, but why did the bleeding have a large mark, indicating that the victim not only did not receive timely treatment after bleeding from the back of the head, but was pressed to death on the bed, and the victim expanded the bloodstain area because of the struggle. If it is linked to the headless female corpse, it can be considered that the victim was suffocated to death by being strangled by the neck and pressed to the bed. And washing bed sheets and changing cotton wool is to cover up the bloodstains. It's just that the murderer thinks that the bloodstains can be completely eliminated by washing. As the so-called Skynet is restored, it is not leaky, and this is how it came about.

The next step was to find the former horticulturist of Jingyuan. The gardener's name is Yan Huanhu, and his phone has long been down, so we have to go directly to his house.

Horticulturist Yan Huanhu's family lives in a residential building in Little Swan, but his door can't be opened, so I checked the cracks, handles, and lock cylinders of the door, and from the dust that was distributed, the room was already empty.

I used Yan Huanhu's photo to learn from the surrounding residents that Yan Huanhu himself lived in this house. And the masses reported that they hadn't seen Yan Huanhu and his girlfriend for a long time.

I learned about Yan Huanhu's girlfriend from the crowd again, and no one knew her name, only that she was a fashionable woman who was not tall but had a very well-proportioned body.

The description of the crowd is somewhat close to that of the headless female corpse.

Originally, in my style of handling cases, I must have used my lock-picking skills to knock on the door of the suspect's house and search from the inside.

But I know that Lao Lu will definitely not agree again this time, because he has already connived at this method of mine once, and then made it clear that I can't do it again in the future.

Of course, I would never do it again in front of him, and I can't guarantee whether I would do it behind his back. Because I am eager to solve the case, I will never be able to fulfill such a pedantic promise to Lao Lu.

Lao Lu carried out the application for a search warrant and the comparison of hair DNA and bloodstain DNA from bed sheets at the same time. And I took Xiao Liu and Tang Zhenguo to form a group and began to look for the small shop 'Han Chao F'.

With the cooperation of several criminal investigation teams, we found four 'Han Chao F' women's supply stores throughout the city. This women's goods store has a wide range of products, from accessories to clothing to cosmetics, as long as it is a lady's daily needs, you can buy almost everything in this store. Moreover, these four 'Han Chao F' women's products stores are all located in the main business districts of Longbao, Tiancheng, Wuqiao and the main city, which shows the economic strength.

In the course of my investigation, I obtained an important clue, in which I learned that there was a senior salesperson at the 'Han Chao F' store in Wuqiao who had left without saying goodbye two months ago.

The salesman's name is Yang Guixin, a native of Guizhou, 29 years old this year, with a good appearance and figure, he has been working in Wanzhou for five years, he has not been married, and he has never heard of a boyfriend. However, she has a hobby, especially playing with mobile phones, and often posts selfies on WeChat.

I asked Yang Guixin's former colleague to open her WeChat Moments and check her Moments records one by one. found that from the beginning of this year to two months ago, her circle of friends was updated frequently, and four of the selfies were from Xishan Park, one of which was taken in Jingyuan.

Yang Guixin's last circle of friends is a picture of a golden hairpin, the golden hairpin is antique, the shape of the hairpin is the shape of a certain flower, due to the angle problem, I can't tell what kind of flower it is. But I vaguely felt that this golden hairpin was not simple, so I downloaded the photo of the golden hairpin to my mobile phone.

After that, we obtained Yang Guixin's basic information from the staff information of Wuqiao 'Han Chao F' women's supplies store.

I handed over Yang Guixin's basic information to Xiao Liu and asked him to go to the public security system to check and see if the information was true.

And I came to the antique shop 'Bu Puzhai' in Pigeon Ditch with Tang Zhenguo, and my purpose was to find Yang Fatzi, the owner of the antique shop, to help me see what kind of golden hairpin this product is?

After Yang Fatzi took my mobile phone and looked at the photo, he shook his head in surprise, he stared at the photo and squinted his eyes and said: "If I didn't look away, this is a rare pine, bamboo, plum and golden hairpin!" ”

I asked, "Is it an antique?" ”

Yang Fatzi pursed his lips and nodded and said: "This pine, bamboo, plum and golden hairpin should be a pair, and the shape is roughly the same. The hairpin is shaped like a pine branch, with a few pine leaves hanging on it, and a few plum blossoms hanging down from the pine branches. This pair of golden hairpins are made of gold, with beautiful shape, pure color, excellent production, the overall style is elegant, chic, full of interest, and at the same time embodies the Chinese people's praise of high purity and the worship of great ancestors. As for why it is called pine, bamboo, plum and golden hairpin, it is because pine and bamboo do not wither in winter, and plum is cold-resistant and blooms, so Chinese literati often use them to metaphor the noble and strong quality, which are the themes that Chinese folk like to see, that is, the so-called 'three friends of the cold year'. ”

Tang Zhenguo asked very directly: "You are talking so much, I just want to know how much this golden hairpin is worth?" ”

Yang Fatzi handed me the mobile phone, looked at Tang Zhenguo, looked at me again and said, "The market price should be more than one million." ”

I kind of understand, if this pine, bamboo, plum, and golden hairpin is really so valuable, then this headless female corpse case is likely to be a financial killing.

Subsequently, we returned to the criminal investigation team to report the situation to Lao Lu. Lao Lu also told me the DNA test results, and the DNA of the black hair on the velvet rubber band and the DNA of the blood stains on the bed sheet matched the DNA of the headless female corpse. Then it can be determined that the utility room in Jingyuan is the first scene of the murder.

Xiao Liu also verified Yang Guixin's basic information on the public security network, and there were no discrepancies. Moreover, it was discovered that a month and a half ago, in Pu'an County, Guizhou Province's Southwest Guizhou Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, a person named Yang Xingfu called the police, saying that his daughter Yang Guixin had disappeared in Chongqing.

Xiao Liu had already contacted Yang Xingfu, who was far away in Guizhou, and asked him to come to Wanzhou to identify the deceased. According to Xiao Liu, this Yang Xingfu heard on the phone that his daughter might be dead, and he was crying to death, calling for heaven and earth.

The search warrant for Yan Huanhu's house was finally applied, and my lockpicking skills also played their due role, so there was no need for Lao Lu to use a heavy police door breaking hammer.

Yan Huanhu's home is an ordinary house with two bedrooms and one living room, and I entered the bathroom without saying a word.

This bathroom is not large, only five square meters, with a traditional urinal and an electric shower.

I went straight to the bathroom because I suspected that the bathroom was where the killer cut off the deceased's head.

After a careful search of the bathroom, I found two small droplets of blood in the shape of willow leaves in the corner of the tiled wall, apparently caused by the blood splattered from the deceased's body during the murderer's murder. Although the murderer cleaned the bathroom afterwards, these two drops of blood still slipped through the net and became ironclad evidence.

I thought that Yang Guixin's head would be found in the house, but unfortunately, we searched through the places in the house where the head might be hidden, such as the freezer of the refrigerator, the closed kitchen tank, etc., and found no head of the deceased. It seems that the head should have been abandoned by the murderer somewhere.

After the DNA of the blood droplets in the bathroom was identified, it was completely consistent with the DNA of the headless female corpse, so the crime of gardener Yan Huanhu was completely implemented, and the public security department immediately wanted him, and the wanted warrant is as follows.

Yu Gong Xing Ji (2016) No. 5

On April 2, 2016, a vicious homicide case occurred in Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality, in which the criminal suspect Yan Huanhu was suspected of intentional homicide and escaped responsibility.

Criminal suspect Yan Huanhu: male, Han nationality, 35 years old, from Zouma Town, Wanzhou District, Chongqing City, ID number XXX. Household registration address: No. X, Xiaohe Community, Zouma Town, Wanzhou District, Chongqing. Physical features: 1.74 meters tall, thin body, melon seed face.

The public security organs are telling the criminal suspect Yan Huanhu not to have any luck and illusions, and to take the initiative to surrender to the local public security organs or call 110.

The Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau will give a reward of 100,000 yuan to informants who discover clues and units or individuals who have made meritorious contributions to the arrest.

Chongqing Municipal Public Security Department

June 15, 2016

The wanted warrant was accompanied by a clear color photograph of Yan Huanhu.

Half a month later, Yan Huanhu was arrested in Nanning, Guangxi.

During the interrogation, Yan Huanhu confessed to the murder of Yang Guixin.

Yan Huanhu met Yang Guixin through people near WeChat at the beginning of the year, and the two chatted very well, and it didn't take long for them to have a good impression of each other and establish a relationship between men and women.

But because Yang Guixin met Yan Huanhu on the Internet, she was worried that people around her would laugh at her online dating, so she did not announce this relationship.

The relationship between the two was originally very smooth, and Yan Huanhu also gave Yang Guixin a golden hairpin in mid-March, and this golden hairpin was found by Yan Huanhu in the secret grid of a room in Jingyuan, a total of two, both of which are pine, bamboo, and plum golden hairpins. Of course, Yan Huanhu hopes to make substantial progress with Yang Guixin, but Yang Guixin feels that he has not been in contact with the man for a long time, and he still needs to know more, so he has always maintained the final bottom line.

However, Yan Huanhu spent a lot of money on Yang Guixin, so he kept making some unreasonable demands to Yang Guixin, which made Yang Guixin feel disgusted.

At the same time, Yan Huanhu asked someone who knew how to identify the remaining golden hairpin, only to know that it was a priceless antique.

Just when he was excited, Yang Guixin proposed to Yan Huanhu to break up.

This poured a bucket of ice water on Yan Huanhu, who was overexcited, and he was angry and regretful. What he was angry about was that he had given a lot to Yang Guixin, but he didn't get anything in return. He regretted it, regretted that he shouldn't have given the valuable golden hairpin to Yang Guixin.

The more he thought about it, the more worthless it became, so he called Yang Guixin to the Jingyuan utility room, and first begged not to break up, but Yang Guixin had already made up his mind. After Yan Huanhu asked Yang Guixin to return the golden hairpin, Yang Guixin was very angry, not only unwilling to return it, but also ridiculed Yan Huanhu for not being a man and having a small heart.

Yan Huanhu slapped Yang Guixin in a fit of anger, Yang Guixin was even more angry, crying and rushing up to beat Yan Huanhu, Yan Huanhu pushed hard and pushed Yang Guixin down on the bed, because of the excessive force, Yang Guixin hit the back of the head on the edge of the bed, bleeding and confused.

Yan Huanhu was murderous at this time, so he simply pressed Yang Guixin on the bed and pinched her neck hard, finally suffocating Yang Guixin to death.

After Yan Huanhu killed, he rummaged through Yang Guixin's bag, but did not find the pine, bamboo, plum, and golden hairpins.

Yan Huanhu put Yang Guixin's body into a plastic woven bag, put four stones in the pocket, tied the mouth of the bag with hemp rope, and then hid the bag containing the body in the corner of the utility room, preparing to sink the body in the dead of night. And began to clean up the crime scene, rolled the bloody beds together, also tied them with hemp rope, and placed them in the corner of the utility room.

Yan Huanhu contacted his cousin who ran the black car and helped him dispose of the body. His cousin Yan Guangkuan once served a sentence for deliberately injuring people, so he was very bold, and he proposed that if he wanted to dispose of the body, he would divide the body, so that it would not be easy to be detected.

So taking advantage of the night, Yan Huanhu and Yan Guangkuan took Yang Guixin's body back to Yan Huanhu's home, and Yan Guangkuan cut off Yang Guixin's head with a kitchen knife.

They stripped Yang Guixin's clothes, put them back into plastic woven bags, and then, at Yan Guangkuan's suggestion, drove to the Ganning River in Ganning Township, where they carried out the corpse sinking. When sinking the corpse, Yan Guangkuan proposed not to sink the head into the Ganning River, but into the Yangtze River.

After sinking the body, the two burned Yang Guixin's clothes with gasoline prepared in advance in a remote place.

On the way back, the two crossed the Wanzhou Bridge and threw Yang Guixin's head and mobile phone into the Yangtze River in the middle of the bridge.

When Yan Huanhu got home, he flushed the bathroom at home. After that, he dusted off a new bed of cotton wool, washed the bloody sheets, and found a remote place to set fire to the old cotton wool.

In the end, Yan Huanhu resigned, sold the golden hairpin at a price of 600,000 yuan, distributed it to his cousin Yan Guangkuan 300,000, and fled to Guangxi by himself.

Of course, both Yan Huanhu and Yan Guangkuan received the punishment they deserved, and the accounts for the sale of cultural relics were recovered.

But lost lives can never be regained.

In the funeral home, Old Man Yang looked at Yang Guixin, whose head was made of paper paste, and cried to death, how many people burst into tears because of the scene of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man.

I sighed in my heart, why did a pair of young men and women, who should have become a pair of enviable mandarin ducks, fall into such a situation?

The root of this is still that sentence: all evil and fornication are the first, and money is the foundation of all evil.