"Xiao Xia, after the New Year, your complexion is much better!" Sitting in the passenger seat, I said in a mocking tone to the young police officer with a red face and a Peugeot police uniform.

"This is thanks to Brother Ouyang, who helped the team solve several big cases a year ago, so that the brothers had a stable year. But these stable days are always short, you see that this is just after March, and there is another big case. Xiao Xia's expression slowly turned heavy from the initial relaxation.

I didn't ask anything more, because Lao Lu had already made it clear to me on the phone before.

Looking at the time, it was already 8:40 in the morning, I looked out the car window again, and said in my heart, why did it take so long for this Tang Zhenguo to buy breakfast?

"It's coming!" Natsu held the steering wheel with her left hand and pointed ahead with her right.

Tang Zhenguo's sturdy body in a leather jacket shuttled quickly through the crowd, carrying several white plastic bags in his hands.

"Oh, there are so many people, it's hard to wait! Come on, one for one person, pot roasted soy milk plus six buns. Tang Zhenguo rushed into the back seat of the police car and handed a few plastic bags forward.

Of course, I'm not welcome, I took the steamed buns and soy milk and started eating, and a smell of steamed buns that I thought was very fragrant instantly filled the car.

Xiao Xia did not refuse Tang Zhenguo's kindness, I know that seven out of ten young people like him do not have the habit of eating breakfast.

Xiao Xia took the plastic bag, put the soy milk in the beverage trough, threw the bun on the center console of the car and said, "I'll eat it later, Team Lu is still waiting for us." ”

I took a mouthful of buns in my mouth, made a mumm-humm, and pointed ahead with a soy milk cup to signal departure.

Traffic jams are inevitable during rush hour, and it takes nearly 40 minutes to travel less than five kilometers from Beishan to the Immigration Plaza. When we arrived at the scene of the crime, it was already half past nine.

The location of the crime is located in a residential building next to the immigration square, which is a relatively old high-end residential area in Wanzhou, but the residential area here is not closed, and the only closed thing is the security door under each building.

Under the guidance of Xiao Xia, we took the elevator to the 13th floor of one of the buildings. As soon as I got out of the elevator, I saw that the police had set up a cordon here, and some residents were standing outside the boundary line in their home clothes, looking out into a room with an open door.

We put on gloves and foot coverings and entered the room, where several on-site investigators were taking photos and searching for evidence.

Lao Lu stood on the side, his left arm hugged his chest, his right hand supported his chin, his head bowed slightly, his brows furrowed, obviously thinking about something.

Xiao Xia walked up to Lao Lu and said, "Team Lu, Brother Ouyang is here." ”

Lao Lu immediately returned to reality from his contemplation, then walked up to me, tilted his head in the direction of the male corpse on the ground, and said: "The deceased's name is Cao Weihu, 49 years old, divorced, living alone, the owner of a calligraphy and painting shop, and it is said that there are still some famous names in the calligraphy and painting collection circle in Wanzhou. ”

While listening to Lao Lu's introduction to the deceased's situation, I looked around the scene. Judging from the layout of the deceased's residence, the walls of the nearly 40-square-meter living room are covered with various calligraphy and paintings, but one of the paintings facing the TV wall is very puzzling to me.

It was an oil painting about 150 centimeters long and 90 centimeters wide, except for the background of distant mountains and strange clouds, and the deceased died under this strange painting.

This strange painting caught my attention, so I walked over to it and took a closer look.

In addition to the background, this painting also has the artist's signature, a painter named Yu Jinmo.

So I checked the Internet and found out that this is a leader among contemporary painters, and his paintings are biased towards gods and monsters, including a work called "Nine Dragons" that fetched a high price of 3.7 million pounds at auction in the United Kingdom, which is rare among contemporary painters.

Since it is a painting by a great painter, it is conceivable that the value of this painting is also very high, but why does this painting only have a background pattern and no main picture? I can't guess that for now.

Returning to the deceased, it can be said that the deceased is a blur of flesh and blood. Squatting down to take a closer look, he was wearing a long red bathrobe, barefoot, the bathrobe was untied, revealing a naked body, and there were multiple knife marks on his body, and these knife marks were in a group of three knife marks on the face, abdomen, thighs and chest, which were cut in parallel, and the wounds were deep. I measured it, and the distance between the parallel knife marks was exactly the same, indicating that the three-handled knife was fixed, so what kind of murder weapon could it be?

However, the scars like this are not fatal injuries, but the large amount of blood stains at the scene can be judged that the deceased died from excessive blood loss caused by these knife wounds. However, it is strange that the deceased showed no signs of struggle at all, and judging from the amount of bleeding from the corpse, the knife wound should have been inflicted before death. The only explanation is that the deceased was cut with a sharp weapon after severe fainting, and finally died of blood loss. So I sniffed the deceased's mouth, there was a strong smell of wine, it seems that the deceased had drunk alcohol before his death, so what made the deceased unconscious, could it be caused by the * in the wine? This will only be known after the autopsy report comes out. But why did the murderer use such a strange murder weapon? And to kill the dead in such a cruel way? These two points are also very strange.

Looking around the deceased, there was something that I couldn't explain, and that was the paw prints of several animals, such as large dogs. So I said to Tang Zhenguo: "Go and ask the neighbors outside, does this Cao Weihu have dogs?" ”

After consulting with a neighbor outside, Tang Zhenguo told me that the deceased had never had a dog. Strange, so how did the paw prints come about?

"Captain, the deceased's cell phone was found in the bedroom." A police officer reported to Lao Lu.

Lao Lu said: "Put it in the evidence bag and keep it well." ”

I hurriedly said, "Show me your phone." ”

I took the phone and found that the phone had a graphic lock, and I muttered in my heart: "Why don't you use a fingerprint lock?" "Of course, if it's a fingerprint lock, it's easy to unlock, because the owner of the fingerprint is lying on the ground.

But the graphic lock doesn't bother me. I took the phone to the well-lit windowsill, and then observed the phone screen, some finger clicks and a word to remove the right vertical symbol is clearly visible, this symbol is obviously close to the first pinyin letter C surnamed Cao, so the password of the graphic lock was so simple to crack.

This Cao Weihu is indeed a standard post-60s, and the mobile phone is all mobile phones that come with and have not been upgradedAPP, and the usage rate of WeChat QQ SMS and the like is quite low. However, he often uses the camera function, and his phone is full of all kinds of calligraphy and painting photos.

One of the paintings shocked me, even weird, I showed this photo to Lao Lu, who looked up at the oil painting on the wall with only a background, and also showed a confused expression: "How can this be?" ”

The photo in Cao Weihu's phone is the painting on the wall, but there is a lifelike nine-tailed fox in the painting.

Lao Lu took the mobile phone and walked under the painting, looked at the phone, looked at the painting, looked at the painting again, looked at the painting again, and finally looked at the corpse, showing a puzzled expression.

I walked up to Lao Lu and whispered, "Are you thinking about something surreal?" ”

Lao Lu's brows furrowed tightly, and he said, "You think so too?" But we all know it's impossible. ”

I said, "A fox in the painting jumped out and killed Cao Weihu?" It may be possible to appear in the story of Liaozhai, and appear here......" I chuckled and shook my head.

"And what do you think?" Lao Lu handed me the phone, and I knew that he wanted me to compare the photos on the phone with the paintings on the wall, and then give a reasonable explanation.

I took the phone and said, "Professional painters can tell if a painting that looks exactly the same is from the same person, but unfortunately now it's a comparison between a photo and a painting, and there is no way to compare the details of the brush, so it will be quite difficult to distinguish." However, one thing is certain, the painting on the photo and the painting on the wall will never be the same painting, and even if both paintings are by the same person, then the painting on the wall is also an unfinished painting. But will an unfinished sheet leave the artist's signature? This is highly doubtful. Therefore, I think that the painting on the wall is a fake, and the reason why we want to imitate the background of the original painting is to associate the painting with this murder case, and mislead us that it is the nine-tailed fox in the painting that committed the crime. If you look at the knife marks on the corpse, they are obviously imitation claw marks, and the animal claw prints on the ground, all of which are suspicious things. Then I pointed to my head and said, "I think this man has a lot of paranoia." ”

Lao Lu said: "If you hadn't unlocked the lock of your mobile phone, our detection scope would not have involved this painting so quickly, why did the murderer make such a grotesque trick?" ”

I said, "This painting should be easy to draw our attention, how can an unfinished painting hang in the most important place in the living room?" Whoever it is, after the in-depth investigation of the case, will focus on this painting. Based on the crime scene, I can first make a psychological portrait of the murderer. First of all, this person should be a young painter with excellent drawing skills. The reason for the speculation was judged by several paw prints on the ground. Although these bloody animal paw prints seem to be very casually printed on the ground, I believe that even if you ask professional animal researchers, they will think that the pattern of these paw prints is left by an animal when walking, and even the gradual fading of the paw prints is taken into account, which shows that their painting skills are superb. Secondly, the murderer was a man, and from the depth of the wound of the deceased, I judged that this person's arm strength was not small, so I would rather believe that the murderer was a man than guess that it was a woman with a lot of arm strength. Third, a young male painter, using his own painting skills, carefully arranged, blames the murderer on the nine-tailed fox in a painting, a person with this kind of thinking, his thinking must be grotesque, he has the surreal thinking of an artist, and he must also be a fashion trendsetter. In the end, the murderer must have been very familiar with the deceased, otherwise the deceased would not have met him in a bathrobe, but the murderer had a grudge against the deceased, otherwise he would not have killed the deceased by such cruel means. ”

Tang Zhenguo stood aside, looked at the painting thoughtfully, and said, "What is the murderer's motive for killing?" ”

I pointed to the painting and said, "The original painting is from a famous teacher, and it is very valuable!" ”