When every case occurs, it is actually like a mess, as long as the thread is found, then many problems can be easily solved, and the job of the criminal police is to find the thread from this mess and sort out the context of the case.

After Li Lei put Xu Lang down at the intersection not far from his house, Li Lei returned to the Public Security Bureau with Zhu Xumei.

On the way back, Zhu Xumei sat in the back seat, looking at the back of the man who was slowly driving towards the community through the car window, Zhu Xumei felt distressed for no reason, but she didn't know if she was feeling sorry for herself or the man.

When the car left, Zhu Xumei gradually retracted her gaze, and she suddenly thought that when she was at Niu Honghe's house, why did Xu Lang and Li Lei think the living room was strange, she thought so, so she asked.

Li Lei was driving, but after hearing Zhu Xumei's question, he smiled and said, "When I saw you, I saw it in film and television dramas, so I thought so." ”

Zhu Xumei looked at Li Lei's back and asked suspiciously: "After Niu Honghe surrendered, he said that after he found out that his wife Yu Jie was killed by Jiang Zhengye, he had a fight to the death with Jiang Zhengye. ”

"The situation you mentioned is not non-existent in reality, but at the scene of Niu Honghe's case, such a situation will definitely not occur." Li Lei said without replying.

"Why?" Zhu Xumei asked curiously.

"First, Jiang Zhengye's autopsy report wrote that Jiang Zhengye had no other wounds on his body except for being stabbed in the chest."

"No, I've seen Jiang Zhengye's body, his eyes, as well as his nose and cheeks have traces of being beaten, this is obviously a scar from the fight, how can there be no other wounds, is it a mistake by the forensic doctor?" Zhu Xumei still insisted on his own opinion.

"When you had a meeting today, you shouldn't have read the autopsy report properly, right?" Li Lei asked rhetorically.

Hearing Li Lei say this, Zhu Xumei smirked twice with some embarrassment, and then said: "It's really not good-looking, I just thought about what Brother Lang said at that time." ”

Li Lei shook his head and did not directly criticize Zhu Xumei, but said earnestly: "The autopsy report is a very important part when we solve the case, and every autopsy result will affect the direction of our investigation. ”

"Oh, I see." Zhu Xumei said with some embarrassment.

Li Lei said this, and it was just a point, and now young people, like Zhu Xumei and Hu Anyun, they are all young people, their brains are active, and they don't need him to deliberately knock on anything, just remind them, so Li Lei continued to explain: "Jiang Zhengye's autopsy report wrote that the blows on Jiang Zhengye's body were all left a few days before the murder, and at the time of the murder, Jiang Zhengye's body had no other wounds except for the fatal knife wound, so, Niu Honghe said that after he found out that his wife was killed by Jiang Zhengye, it was impossible for him to have a fight to the death with Jiang Zhengye. ”

After hearing Li Lei say this, Zhu Xumei immediately understood, she took over and said: "Since Niu Honghe didn't fight to the death with Jiang Zhengye, then Niu Honghe's living room at home won't be so messy, so after you and Brother Lang arrive at the scene, you will feel strange when you see the mess in the living room, right?" ”

Li Lei nodded and said, "That's right, but this is only one of the reasons." ”

"Oh? Is there any other reason? ”

Li Lei nodded and said: "Yes, the second reason is that since Niu Hong and his family had such a fierce fight, Niu Hong and his neighbors, especially the neighbors who live downstairs and opposite Niu Honghe's house, it is impossible not to hear it, no matter whether they move around often or not, whether they are familiar or not, when they hear this kind of movement, they will be curious to come out and take a look, even if they don't ask, it will have an impact, but when Lu Xing and they came here to investigate and visit, these neighbors did not hear Niu Hong and his family make a loud noise, What does this mean? ”

Zhu Xumei thought for a while and said: "There are two possibilities, first, either Niu Hong and his family did not fight, and the scene was forged by Niu Honghe, and the second is that when Niu Hong and Jiang Zhengye fought to the death, these neighbors happened to be not at home, or because of other things, they didn't hear it, right?" ”

Li Lei nodded again and said: "There is another possibility, that is, these neighbors heard it, but for some purpose, they collectively chose to lie when the police investigated and visited." ”

"Lying? Why are they lying? They are not very familiar with Niu Honghe and his family, so they don't need to do that at all, right? Zhu Xumei frowned and said.

Li Lei shook his head and said: "This is just a possibility, when we handle the case, we must think of all kinds of possibilities, even if the probability of this possibility happening in real life is very small." ”

After listening to this, Zhu Xumei thought about it, nodded heavily, and thought it was true, she remembered what Li Lei said.

After the two of them were silent for a while, Zhu Xumei asked again: "When we went to investigate the scene just now, you didn't notice that Niu Honghe's home seemed to be a little abnormal. ”

While speaking, the car had returned to the Public Security Bureau, and after Li Lei parked the car, he asked while unbuckling his seat belt: "What do you see is abnormal?" ”

Zhu Xumei pushed the car door, got out of the car, came to the trunk, and said while holding the evidence found from the scene in his hand: "We found four sets of toiletries in the bathroom, and found the man's clothes in the second bedroom, that is, Niu Jinglun's room. ”

Li Lei took most of the things by himself, and the two of them walked towards the Public Security Bureau with all the evidence, and while walking, Li Lei said: "This is the discovery, this is the clue, what does this mean?" It shows that when we first surveyed the site, the work was not done carefully enough, not serious enough, and a bit perfunctory, so when Brother Lang scolded me, instead of feeling uncomfortable, I felt that he was scolding very right, after all, this is because our work was not done well. ”

When the two of them were about to approach the Public Security Bureau, Li Lei suddenly stopped, turned his head, looked at Zhu Xumei and said: "You have just stepped into the criminal police industry, you don't know much, this is a good thing, I made a mistake today, I hope you don't make it again in your work in the future, otherwise, we are dereliction of duty, you know?" ”

When Li Lei said this, her expression was very serious, not as kind as before, and Zhu Xumei saw such a solemn expression on Li Lei's face for the first time, so she nodded heavily and said, "Brother Lei, I know, I will remember it." ”

Li Lei nodded, didn't say anything more, and the two of them walked into the Public Security Bureau with these things.

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After Xu Lang got out of the car, he took out his cigarette case, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it, and walked towards home while smoking.

He didn't know how much impact the words he said at the murder scene today had on Li Lei and Zhu Xumei, even if he knew, he wouldn't care, the reason why Xu Lang scolded Li Lei in front of Zhu Xumei at the scene was mainly because Li Lei used to be a soldier under him, if someone else followed Xu Lang, Xu Lang would never say these things, after all, not everyone is willing to accept criticism and lessons.

Xu Lang was smoking while thinking about the clues found at the scene of the murder, from finding a shoe print in the living room, to finding four sets of toiletries in the bathroom, and finally to the bedroom where the child Niu Jinglun lived in the second bedroom, and finding the man's clothes, Xu Lang could already determine that in Niu Honghe's house, there was actually a fourth person living, as for who this person is, and what is the relationship between Niu Hong and the family, Xu Lang is not clear for the time being, of course, this is just Xu Lang's speculation, Xu Lang believes that with Li Lei's experience, he must have noticed this, As long as the results of the identification from the forensic department come out, everything will be revealed.

Xu Lang walked downstairs, a cigarette had been smoked, he threw away the cigarette butt, not thinking about this case, he was now very tired according to himself, not only physical exhaustion, but mainly psychological exhaustion, especially the appearance of Shangguan Jing, like a thorn in Xu Lang's heart, making Xu Lang feel very uncomfortable.

Xu Lang took out the key to open the door, after changing his shoes, Xu Lang came to the restaurant, he was a little hungry, he only had one meal today, or in the canteen of the Public Security Bureau, it has been several hours now, Xu Lang has long been hungry.

When he came to the restaurant, he found that when Shangguan Jing left in the morning, the prepared breakfast was still on the table, and the white porridge had already dried up, Xu Lang looked at it, he didn't have a little appetite, he walked into the kitchen with the dishes, poured these things into the trash can, put the bowl into the sink casually, and then turned on the gas and started to boil the water, he was ready to eat the next bowl of noodles.

When boiling water, Xu Lang took out onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings from the refrigerator, in fact, many people don't know Xu Lang, thinking that Xu Lang can't cook, but the fact is that Xu Lang not only knows how to cook, but also burns a good dish, of course, this is mainly because Xu Lang has lived in the countryside since he was a child, and there are very few people who have eaten Xu Lang's cooking, except for a few people such as Xu Lang's grandmother and sister Shu Yue, no one else has eaten, and since Xu Lang entered the police academy, he rarely went down to the kitchen to concentrate on cooking a table of dishes, More often than not, he chooses to go over the bowl of noodles at once.

When Xu Lang washed the green onions, ginger and garlic and cut them, the water was also boiled, Xu Lang took out the noodles and threw them in, and then stirred them in the pot with chopsticks, and when the water boiled again, Xu Lang took out two eggs from the refrigerator, broke the eggshell, put the eggs into the pot, and after staring for a while, the noodles were already cooked, Xu Lang put the green onions, ginger and garlic into the pot, and after the chopsticks stirred a few times, he turned off the heat and took out a bowl to hold the noodles.

When Xu Lang came to the living room with noodles and was about to eat, the mobile phone in Xu Lang's pocket rang, Xu Lang took it out and looked at it, and found that it was a call from Shangguan Jing, Xu Lang frowned, put down his chopsticks, and connected the phone.

"Hey."

"Did you sleep?"

"No, I don't."

"What are you doing?"

Xu Lang picked up the chopsticks, put a chopstick noodle into his mouth, and said while eating: "Eat noodles." ”

"What time is it, why are you eating now?" Shangguan Jing asked with concern on the other end of the phone.

Xu Lang didn't feel that Shangguan Jing was caring about himself, Xu Lang didn't think that Shangguan Jing was taking a fancy to himself, although in the past many years, there were many girls who liked themselves, but this was just a disguised worship of girls for boys, Xu Lang never put it in psychology, so Xu Lang said: "Say, it's so late, what's the matter with calling me?" ”

"Can't I call you if it's okay?" Shangguan Jing said in a coquettish tone.

Xu Lang put down his chopsticks, his brows furrowed more and more, and he said with an ugly expression: "If you have nothing to do, I'll hang up, and I still have to eat noodles." ”

"Don't, actually, I called you to ask, do you have time tomorrow?"

Xu Lang just picked up the chopsticks, put them down again, and thought about it, Niu Honghe's case still needs more investigation before there can be progress, whether it is DNA comparison, or fingerprint collection, etc., it will take time, Xu Lang has proposed the direction of investigation to the second criminal investigation team today, Xu Lang feels that he doesn't need to go to the second criminal investigation team tomorrow, so Xu Lang said: "There is time, what's wrong?" ”

"And what are you going to do tomorrow?"

"Sleep." Xu Lang said without thinking.

"Do you have time to come out tomorrow?"

"What are you going out for?" Xu Lang solved a bowl of noodles in two bites, he put down his chopsticks, stood up, held his mobile phone in one hand, and squatted with a bowl and chopsticks in the other hand and walked into the kitchen.

"Siya misses you and wants to play with you, if you have time, come to the west of the city to see her." Shangguan Jing said on the other end of the phone.

Xu Lang frowned, he couldn't understand what Shangguan Jing wanted to do, as for Liu Siya saying that she wanted to play with herself, Xu Lang didn't take it seriously at all, first, Xu Lang knew that he didn't have a child, and there was no topic to talk about with the child at all, and secondly, although Xu Lang and Liu Siya had been in contact twice, he could feel that Liu Siya was still very wary of herself, if Liu Siya didn't reject herself, Xu Lang still believed that if Liu Siya wanted to play with herself, Xu Lang wouldn't believe it.

"Hey, Xu Lang, are you listening?" Shangguan Jing waited for a while, didn't hear Xu Lang speak, and asked on the other end of the phone.

"Oh, I'm listening." Xu Lang thought for a while and said, "Since that's the case, I'll go back to the orphanage tomorrow." ”

"Okay, then it's settled, good night, and good dreams."

Shangguan Jing was very happy after receiving Xu Lang's affirmative reply, she was afraid that Xu Lang would regret it, and after saying good night, she quickly hung up the phone.

Xu Lang put down the phone, frowned and thought about it, then put the phone in his pocket, and then began to clean up the kitchen.

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In the director's office of the orphanage in the west of the city, after Shangguan Jing put down the mobile phone, the expression of the little woman on her face gradually disappeared as the mobile phone was put down, she stood up, walked to the window, looked at the dark night scene, her eyes moved slightly, and muttered to herself: "Hmph, Xu Lang, back then, you didn't say goodbye, and you left me here ruthlessly, I haven't seen you for many years, you have become a criminal investigation consultant, do you think you pretend not to know me, I can't do anything about you?" Hehe, you're thinking so beautiful, I'll make you pay. ”

A trace of moonlight spilled in from the window, shining on Shangguan Jing's beautiful cheeks, under the illumination of the moonlight, Shangguan Jing looked more and more beautiful, but the expression on her face was extremely distorted and hideous, like a cheetah that treats people and loves people, which makes people look a little frightened.

"Crunch."

The door of the office was pushed open from the outside, and a woman walked in, she stood at the door, looked at Shangguan Jing's lonely back, and sighed deeply.

"Hey"

Shangguan Jing was interrupted by this sigh, she turned her head to look at the door, and after finding that it was Aunt Wang standing at the door, a touching smile appeared on her face again, and asked softly, "Aunt Wang, it's so late, why haven't you slept yet?" Are the kids all asleep? ”

Aunt Wang looked at Shangguan Jing, with a doting expression in the depths of her eyes, and said slowly: "The children have been crazy for a day, they are all tired, and they have already gone to sleep now." ”

Speaking of this, Aunt Wang walked to Shangguan Jing's side, looked into Shangguan Jing's eyes, and said earnestly: "Are you still thinking about that young man named Xu Lang?" ”

Shangguan Jing didn't speak, just nodded, which was considered to be an answer to Aunt Wang's question.

Aunt Wang looked at Shangguan Jing and stopped talking, and finally said, "Xiaojing, haven't you let go of that incident back then?" Although I have only met the young man named Xu Lang once, I can feel that he is not the same child back then, so why should you entangle with him? Do you still think he didn't hurt you deep enough back then? ”

"Aunt Wang, don't say it, I know what I'm doing." Shangguan Jing interrupted Aunt Wang's words and said.

Aunt Wang looked at Shangguan Jing, stretched out a hand and touched Shangguan Jing's head, and then sighed.

"Hey"

"Go back and rest early, don't be too tired, you're still young."

After saying this, Aunt Wang turned around and walked out of the dean's office.

Shangguan Jing looked at Aunt Wang's distant back, her face changed sharply, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

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