At this time, Ye Lili suddenly remembered: he had made an appointment with Han Yuchao to go back, but he actually forgot about it. She looked up at the watch on the wall, it was already past 5 o'clock, and it was already past the time for the train to start.

Ye Lili hurriedly took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Han Yuchao, but found that the mobile phone was out of battery. Ye Lili was busy managing Hu Ding and Wang Li borrowed a mobile phone and called Han Yuchao, so that Han Yuchao knew Ye Lili's specific location.

After listening to Ye Lili, Han Yuchao said: "Lili, since you want to stay here for a few more days and want to find out the truth about your parents' deaths, then why should I be watching from the sidelines." Don't worry, your business is my business, and I will definitely help you to the end. ”

"Really, Brother Chao. You are really willing to help me. Hearing him say this, Ye Lili was grateful, but a little shy. She quickly clicked twice on the computer in front of her, closed the web page she had just opened and reopened.

Han Yuchao went over to take a look, and it turned out that what was shown on it was the file that picked up the case back then.

Hu Ding said: "In recent years, we have also installed computers in our police station, and we have entered all the unsolved cases for so many years into the computer. In fact, our Qingzhi villagers are simple and simple, and the people in the village are very kind and easy-going, so there have been few homicides over the years. And with the development of science and technology in recent years, many old cases have basically been solved now, but it is this arson case, although we have some clues, but we still can't find a clue. ”

The arson case took place on August 11, 1998, at the home of Ye Zhibin and Xia Xiaomei. At around 11 o'clock that night, someone reported that he saw Ye Zhibin Xia Xiaomei's house on fire, and it looked like the fire was very big, and the whole house was about to be engulfed.

After receiving the report, the fire police hurriedly rushed to extinguish the fire, and when they rushed in, they found that the two couples had already died in the fire, and their bodies had been charred.

The inside of the room is very neat, and there is no trace of being turned over. Two charred black corpses lay on the bed intertwined. On the bed in the bedroom and on the table next to the bedside, the police found several liquor bottles, which seemed to have just been opened, and some of them seemed to have unfinished liquor in them. And afterwards according to the owner of a grocery store. That night, Ye Zhibin did buy a few bottles of liquor here and some cooked food. It was a pleasure to see the way he looked. The owner of the grocery store asked him why, and Ye Zhibin smiled and said that he had said that he would move out in two days and that he would move to the town to accompany his daughter.

In view of the fact that the conditions for criminal investigation in China were not developed at that time, Qingzhi Village, a village with simple folk customs, was even more backward. Since there are very few criminal cases here, when an autopsy is required, a forensic doctor cannot even be found. But finally found an old forensic doctor, who had not dissected a corpse for almost 10 years, so he was confronted with two burnt and unrecognizable charred corpses at once, and the old forensic doctor suddenly felt sick to his stomach and almost vomited on the spot.

Although he had not done his job for many years, the old forensic doctor still carefully dissected the corpses: there was a large amount of smoke and dust in the nose, throat, trachea and lungs of the two corpses, and there were also burns on the respiratory tract, which showed that both husbands and wives were alive at the time of the fire. None of them had any injuries from the fight, and they showed no signs of struggle or movement. A considerable amount of liquor was found in the stomachs of the two people, and the brand of liquor was of the same type as the label of the liquor bottle on the table and on the bed.

So based on the above findings, the police speculated that the fire should have been an accident, and the couple drank too much at night, and as a result, the unfinished wine spilled on the sheets. The wine ran down the sheets and to the mosquito coils that were lit on the ground. As a result, the high temperature of the mosquito coil ignited the alcohol, and then the bed sheets ignited, and a fire broke out. At this time, Ye Xia and his wife were already drunk and asleep, so they were buried in the fire in their dreams.

After visiting and investigating, Ye Zhibin and Xia Xiaomei are usually kind and get along very well with the people in the village, and Ye Zhibin said that he was about to move to the town in a few days, and the people in the village were very reluctant. It shows that these two couples do not have any enemies in the village.

In view of the fact that the criminal investigation conditions at that time were not developed, and there were not many professional criminal investigation experts in the small county. So in the end, this issue of the case was characterized as an accident, and the police who were in charge of investigating the case had no objection to this result.

At this time, Wang Li said: "Lao Ding and I were also the police officers responsible for investigating this case, and we were both in our early 20s and had just graduated from the police academy. We don't have much experience, so since it was recognized as an accident, we didn't think much about it, it was an accident. But a month ago, a man came to me and said that his father said he wanted to tell me about the fire 16 years ago, but at this time his father was terminally ill and died after only half speaking. Listening to him, I remembered this case, but at this time I was no longer a policeman, so I found Lao Hu, and the two of us found out the file of the fire that year, and when we looked at it again, we found a lot of clues. ”

Just a month ago, a young man named Lin Mingkai came to find Wang Li, and when he saw Wang Li, he said: "You are Uncle Wang Li, my father has something to do with you?" ”

"Your father, who is he, and what is the matter with me?" Wang Li was puzzled by his visit.

"Uncle Wang, do you remember investigating a fire in the village in 16 years?" Lin Mingkai said.

Wang Li nodded and said: "I remember, because I had just graduated at that time, it was the first time I participated in such a major case, and I will never forget the scene at that time." ”

Lin Mingkai said: "Then I didn't look for the wrong person, my father has been looking for you." Because he said he knew the inside story of the fire and wanted to tell you. ”

"What, Fire Insider?" Hearing him say this, Wang Li was surprised: "You mean, isn't that fire an accident, and there is still something hidden in it." ”

Seeing him ask, Lin Mingkai nodded silently, and acquiesced in what Wang Li said: "My father often taught me that I should be worthy of my heart when I am a person and do things. But he often said that he had done something that was unconscionable in his life, and this matter had been like this for his whole life. Uncle Wang, I can't hide it. My father has terminal cancer now and has no days left. He said that before he died, he must find the police who investigated the case back then and tell him what he knew, otherwise he would not be able to die. ”