Chapter 34: The Cause of Death
The butcher had been walking back and forth in the room for a long time with his hands on his back, and early the next morning, Yun Duruo and I found the butcher and reported to him the latest inferences and thoughts about Mu Hanzhi, but the butcher had not made a clear statement.
According to Yun Duruo's inference, Skynet is restored but not leaked, Mu Hanzhi's suicide case has another hidden story, and some people have forged the illusion of Mu Hanzhi's suicide by setting up a suspicious array, but using sulfuric acid to add to the snake and leave a flaw.
The butcher stood in front of me and Yun Duruo, and solemnly told us that he was the first person to go up to the roof, and he was with three other colleagues in the police force at that time, and he was very sure that there was no one on the roof, according to Yun Duruo, if Mu Hanzhi did not die by suicide, and the roof was not the scene of the first crime, then who brought Mu Hanzhi up.
The butcher's final opinion is not to deal with it publicly, Yun Duruo can investigate according to his own ideas, but based on the sulfuric acid on the soles of his feet, it is unlikely that he will reopen the case for investigation, after all, Yun Duruo and I are only inferring, and we can't get any direct evidence.
Yun Duruo had been studying Mu Hanzhi's past for the past few days.
"Mu Hanzhi's file is very clean, she is an orphan so she has no immediate family, there are few people who interact with her, the social background is simple, after graduating from the Academy of Chinese Opera, she entered the local Peking Opera troupe, and became popular because she starred in Tsing Yi in "Mandarin Duck Tomb".
"At that time, Peking Opera was very popular, unlike now when there are more pastimes, Mu Hanzhi still has an impression that she is really hard to find when she is famous." The butcher returned to his seat and nodded, and said in a low voice. "When I received a phone call and rushed to the scene to know that it was Mu Hanzhi, I was a little surprised, I never had the opportunity to watch her perform on stage, and when I saw it, I actually committed suicide by jumping off the building."
"Could it be because of grudges, maybe Mu Hanzhi is too famous." I interjected from the side, and in terms of criminal investigation, I was completely speechless in front of Yun Duruo and the butcher.
"No, I have already sent people to visit the actors who worked with Mu Hanzhi in the Peking Opera Troupe before, and the evaluation of Mu Hanzhi reflects that he is very open-minded, low-key and indisputable, even after becoming famous, he is very humble." Yun Duruo shook his head and denied my idea. "There is no grudge against people, because Mu Hanzhi is introverted and unsociable, so he didn't have any friends when he was in the Peking Opera Troupe."
"I was in charge of investigating the case back then, and the feedback I got was the same in terms of interpersonal relationships, and the turning point should be after Mu Hanzhi had a child." The butcher lit a cigarette and said to us. "Mu Hanzhi was pregnant because she was unmarried, and her reputation was very important to a woman in that era, even if she became famous, it was a drama after all, so the issue of her style was mentioned the most in the survey that year."
"Mu Hanzhi's style is very erosive?" I asked curiously.
"On the contrary, Mu Hanzhi is glamorous and charming on stage, but he is extremely solemn and cold offstage, and rarely has public contact or even conversation with men." The butcher shook his head and replied. "I can see that Mu Hanzhi also knows his identity, and he is trying his best to avoid suspicion."
"But such a woman is actually pregnant, and she has never seen the child's father until the child is born, presumably the rumors about Mu Hanzhi began at that time." Yun Duruo took the butcher's words and continued. "Since then, Mu Hanzhi has been almost completely isolated from other people, because she has to take care of her children and cannot rehearse, and she can no longer continue to perform, so the Peking Opera Troupe arranged a spare job for her, she spends most of her time with her children, and the colleagues sent out to investigate reported that they have never seen a man come to see Mu Hanzhi."
"Murder for money, murder for wealth! Since you suspect that Mu Hanzhi did not commit suicide, the reason for his murder is inseparable from the four words of seeking money and killing people, either for money or for love. The butcher took a deep puff of his cigarette and looked at us in the smoke and said seriously. Mu Hanzhi's family background is very clean, he should be a person with no secrets, and as for money, she doesn't have it, and there is only one love word left. ”
"I think so too, the key to Mu Hanzhi's suicide case may be in this man who didn't appear." Yun Duruo sighed and said regretfully. "It's a pity that twenty years have passed, and I'm afraid it's not so easy to find a man who Mu Hanzhi hasn't made public."
"Man......," the butcher flicked the cigarette ash in his hand, thinking thoughtfully.
Yun Duruo and I looked at him, and the butcher scratched his head with his hand, and said after thinking for a long time.
"When you say this, it reminds me of one thing, when I was investigating the case, I also did a detailed investigation about the people who came into contact with Mu Hanzhi, and the last person Mu Hanzhi saw before committing suicide was a man."
"Who is it?!" Yun Duruo took a step forward excitedly.
"Liu Yuewu!"
"Liu Yuewu?!" Yun Duruo and I glanced at each other blankly, and I also checked the file of Mu Hanzhi's case, and there was no mention of this person from beginning to end. "Who is Liu Yuewu?"
"You can't find this person in the case file, according to the people's feedback, Mu Hanzhi looked normal the day before he committed suicide, because the next day, that is, the day Mu Hanzhi committed suicide, was Mu Xiaoxuan's birthday, Mu Hanzhi also bought a dress for him, took Mu Xiaoxuan to call Liu Yuewu, and committed suicide the day after he came back." The butcher snuffed out the cigarette and replied lightly. "And on the night when Mu Han stopped committing suicide, Liu Yuewu was also at the scene, and because the case was characterized as a suicide, there was no investigation into this person in the end."
"Is there a file about Liu Yuewu?" Yun Duruo asked eagerly.
"No, because Mu Hanzhi committed suicide, he is not suspected, so there is no investigation." The butcher replied.
Yun Duruo and I were somewhat disappointed when we heard this, Mu Hanzhi has always lived in seclusion and deliberately avoided contact with people, and even took his child to meet a man before committing suicide, if Mu Hanzhi was a love killing, then this man named Liu Yuewu now looks extremely suspicious, but there is no information about this man, and now if he wants to find a person twenty years ago, it is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Oh, I think he seemed to be a makeup artist by profession." What did the butcher think of when Yun Duruo and I left.
"Makeup artist, Liu Yuewu is also from the Peking Opera Troupe?" I asked, surprised.
"No, it's the one who made up the corpse!"
The person who makes up the corpse is now called the mortuary, and there were very few people who did this twenty years ago, if Liu Yuewu's profession was to make up the corpse, then most of the place where he worked was in the crematorium, and the people who were familiar with that place, I did know one.
Han Yu cleaned his Lethe inn, and when he saw me and Yun Duruo appearing in front of him, Han Yu was a little curious, and deliberately looked at the time on the wall, looking at his expression, it seemed that he was not used to me coming back at this time.
"Liu Yuewu?" Han Yu rubbed his forehead and thought for a long time, but he still shook his head. "I know more or less people who work with dead people in the crematorium, but I've never heard the name."
"If you think about it, this person is very important to us." I asked seriously.
"I don't think about it anymore, there are only three mortuaries in the crematorium, two are women, in their thirties, and the age of the person you are looking for does not match, the person who put on makeup on the dead twenty years ago must be forty or fifty years old now." Han Yu replied solemnly.
"You just said there are three, and two of them are women, but what about the other one?" Yun Duruo asked anxiously.
"Oh, Uncle Chen, he is a man, he has been putting on makeup for the dead for some years before, and after he was not allowed to be buried, he took up a position in the crematorium, he is a man, but he is not surnamed Liu." Han Yu said to us casually.
"There won't be too many people who put makeup on the dead, since this Uncle Chen has been doing this, maybe he will know Liu Yuewu!" -#~Wonderful Pen Pavilion?++
When I said this, let Han Yu take us to meet this person named Uncle Chen, the crematorium is at the end of Bliss Street, I have lived here for a while, but I have never been to that place, the gray building that can be seen from a distance is the crematorium, the towering chimney is the symbol here, and the black smoke comes out of the chimney all year round, which means that people are constantly leaving this world.
Han Yu said that it was very cold to walk here in the daytime, let alone at night, the door of the crematorium was a hearse that drove in one after another, and the tragic cry made this place always shrouded in a mournful atmosphere, and the most seen colors here were black and white, I stood at the door of the crematorium, and suddenly remembered the memory of my birth, and the memory is also the convergence of these two colors.
The three of us were looking for people separately, Han Yu knew the most about this place, he went to ask the acquaintances in the crematorium to see if anyone knew Liu Yuewu, Yun Duruo went to the crematorium office to find out if there was this person among the people in the past, Han Yu asked me to go to Uncle Chen, saying that they all had a common topic of dealing with dead people.
Han Yu pointed to a row of low bungalows in the easternmost part of the crematorium and told me that it was the place to put on makeup for the dead, when I went, I saw that there was only one room with the lights on, and no one responded after knocking for a long time.
In the middle of the room is the dressing table, on which a white cloth is laid out, I walked in and saw an old man lying on it with his eyes closed and peaceful, his hands in front of his lower abdomen, except for his hair was a little messy, he looked like he had just fallen asleep, he didn't look like a dead man at all, and his cheeks were even ruddy.
I have to admire the person who makes up the dead, I stand next to the corpse, maybe I have been a forensic doctor for too long, there is not much difference between the living and the dead in my eyes, compared to the corpses I have seen, this one is probably the most complete and clean.
Today's Girls' Day, I wish all MM a happy Girls' Day, especially tomorrow is Women's Day, what should I wish......