Tan Zhongxia listened to me on the phone while eating noodles, and looked up at me from time to time, not knowing what that innocent and thoughtful expression meant.

After eating, I went to pay the bill.

He reacted a little dumbfounded to my act of paying, as if he couldn't figure out why I was paying.

I said to him, "It's time for you to catch the wind, although it's cheap, please don't dislike it." ”

He wiped his mouth, got up, and said in a daze: "You person, I can't understand, I really can't understand." ”

After saying that, he got into the car, crossed his arms and tilted to the side again, and fell asleep.

I continued to drive to the Public Security Bureau, and received a call from Liu Yimin halfway through, saying that there were reporters blocking the gate and asking me to go to the back door.

I'm afraid the back door has it too.

He said: "I have arranged for someone to wait there to pick you up, and I will not let reporters photograph you." ”

I thanked him.

He said, "It's too late for us to thank you, but you thank me." ”

Then, he suddenly lowered his voice and said: "I can't figure out the temper of the new Deputy Captain Tan, Yafeng scolded him in the morning and scolded him so badly that he heard it, you must be leisurely, don't mess with him again, otherwise you will definitely wear small shoes in the future." ”

I glanced at Tan Zhongxia and knew that he was just pretending to be asleep and listening to me on the phone, but I didn't poke him, smiled at Liu Yimin, and deliberately told Tan Zhongxia to listen, saying, "Old Liu, don't worry, he won't." If he is really such a cautious person, he will naturally hit nails everywhere in the future, and he will not stay long. ”

Liu Yimin said: "You can't go wrong with being careful. ”

When I returned to the bureau, I didn't find Bai Yafeng, but I didn't see Hu Hailian sitting like a ghost sitting in a small shadow under the window at the end of the corridor on the third floor.

I wasn't sure if it was her, I shouted from afar, she agreed to get up and walked over, I smelled a trace of the salty smell of tears, I was a little anxious, and I was about to ask her if something was wrong, but I saw her approaching, with a smile like the scorching sun, looking at me, at Tan Zhongxia, and teasing me spicily: "Yo, where did Miss Su pick up a handsome guy and come back." ”

Seeing her like this, even if she really cried just now, she would never tell me what happened. She is the kind of character who swallows tears in her stomach no matter how much bitterness she has, and it is not beautiful to ask, so she simply pretends that she doesn't see anything and doesn't know anything, and only smiles at her.

I was about to introduce them to each other, but I didn't expect Hu Hailian to walk in front of us in a few steps, and her mouth was faster than her feet, and she didn't even stand still, so she grinned at Tan Zhongxia and said with white teeth: "Yo, your face is full of chrysanthemum folds, buddy, you have experienced many vicissitudes, right?" ”

Tan Zhongxia stared at Hu Hailian with his fixed, lusterless, and joyful eyes.

I suppressed my laughter and said to him: "This is your subordinate, surnamed Hu and Hailian, with straight intestines and brains, but very good and very strong in action, in the future, you can assign her any dirty work, hard work, tiring work that no one wants to do, and you can also work hard for her to wear if you have small shoes." ”

Hu Hailian immediately understood the identity of the other party, her eyes were as big as a cowbell, she wanted to say something, but she was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so she quickly raised her right hand to cover her mouth, and then quickly pulled her legs and ran away, just like seeing a cat and a mouse, she couldn't wait to have a few more legs.

I leaned my back against the wall and laughed.

Tan Zhongxia looked at Hu Hailian's fleeing back and shook her head coldly: "Where have I seen her before." ”

When he said this, I really didn't take it to heart at all, I just thought that they were all police officers, and every year there would be all kinds of exchange meetings, short-term training courses, etc., and they would exchange police forces with each other, and there should be photos hanging on the intranet. I didn't notice that there was deep doubt in Tan Zhongxia's tone and attitude when he said this. After a long time, I looked back on it, and I realized that my heart was so wide at that time, and I didn't care about anything.

I led Tan Zhongxia into the conference room on the third floor, the dossier materials of the "Seven Knives Case" and the "Fire Case" were still spread out on the table, he sat down and began to study, I didn't bother, I went outside to call Bai Yafeng and asked him where he was. He said that in his office, he was sorting out the report and materials and preparing to hand them over to the prosecutor for the formal prosecution of the suspects in the "sand pile case".

After finishing talking about the business, he bitterly told me about the unfortunate things that happened this morning, how did he hear that a new vice captain was going to be transferred, how he was upset, so he scolded a few words, but he happened to be heard by the new vice captain, it was really unlucky to get home.

Bai Yafeng's voice and tone were extremely depressed, and his usual momentum and optimism were gone.

I smiled and comforted him and said, "When I have time, I will invite you to a big meal, whether it is seafood or hot pot, you can choose." ”

He pouted and coquettishly pouted with me, saying, "Both." ”

I said, "Okay, add two." ”

He was not satisfied, and added a condition: "I want to bring my dad." ”

I said, "Okay, okay, just bring your babysitter." ”

He was still unhappy, thought about it, and mentioned another one, saying: "You have to help me settle the matter of offending the deputy captain." ”

I should all think: "Okay, okay, I'll help you settle it." ”

He was happy at this time, and he didn't care if I really had the ability to settle it.

I hung up the phone and laughed to myself, thinking that the call was a bit like a child, when in fact, he was almost a child in front of me.

I went back to the conference room and sat down, and also flipped through the file, glancing at Tan Zhongxia from time to time, seeing him so focused on the material, suddenly my heart was at ease, but it was also mixed with a hint of unease. Enron believes that this person's ability can deal with the case at hand, and he is worried that he will use the same ability to deal with me, and if he finds out my identity, I will probably be in trouble.

So in the end, I'm still a little nervous.

Not long after, Liu Yimin and the others came back, and the policeman under him hurriedly ran up and showed me the video he had taken of his family members identifying the bodies.

In the video, a total of seven or eight people arrived at the scene with the police to find the body, two of the women were allowed to approach the body, and the rest were stopped outside the cordon.

The corpse had been placed flat on the ground and was ready to be put into the body bag, Wang Dongsheng led them forward to see, the older woman knelt on the ground with just one glance, her face looked up as if she was going to cry, she was really heartbreaking, her whole body trembled, her eyes were closed, and her mouth was wide open, but she twitched several times, but she couldn't cry sound, she was so sad that her whole soul spasmed.

In addition, the young woman also knelt down and supported the old woman, but she was indifferent, feeling as if her soul was out of her shell, and she was indifferent to all the people and things around her, as if the dead person in front of her had nothing to do with her, and the sadness of the old woman around her had nothing to do with her.

I looked closely at the younger woman, her clothes were simple to the point of tatters, skinny and skinny, at first glance she looked good at forty or fifty years old, but in fact she was about her early thirties, and the old feeling in her face and body was entirely due to her facial movements.

Two women, the older one should be the mother of the deceased, and the younger one should be the wife of the deceased. One was sad to the point of pain, and the other was numb and blank looking at the air. I kept pulling the camera back to the place where they first saw the corpse, and repeated it several times, and suddenly realized that although the two women had such different attitudes, they were conveying a common message.

They didn't seem surprised by the death of the person in front of them.

It was as if they had expected him to die.

From the reaction of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the video when facing the deceased, I suddenly thought of the deceased Luo Bofan in the "fire case".

The contractor who had made enemies everywhere had an investigation report and a transcript of his interrogation of his wife in the file, and when the police found her and showed her the photos of her body, she burst into tears and cursed, saying that she had told him that there would be such a day.

After the woman calmed down, she told the police about some of Luo Bofan's bad behaviors over the years, and what excited her the most was that a young man from Shanxi was seriously injured in an accident on Luo Bofan's construction site last summer, he refused to send him to the hospital, and hid the injured to die with him. Last month, several cousins of the young man figured out what happened, and the Chinese New Year's Eve ran to the house with the urn to make a fuss, Luo Bofan was good, ran outside to the second or third grandmother's house to hide, did not come forward at all, and pitted his wife and son to death.

The transcript said that Luo Bofan's wife Huang He talked for a long time before it ended, and then said to herself with a dull gaze: "It doesn't matter if he dies, I don't have to suffer when he dies, and I don't have to suffer from the anger of those women outside him." ”

I found a common denominator in this.

Comparing the attitudes of Luo Bofan's wife, and then looking at the attitudes of the two women in the video, although they cannot be said to be the same, at least there are similarities. The young one, his eyes are numb to the extreme, he doesn't care about anything, and there is even a hint of ease that he has finally gotten rid of. The old one, there is only sadness, no anger and grievances, if he is a good son, he is killed in such a cruel way, as a mother, sadness and anger should be wrapped together.

Looking at the neighbors from the same village who came after their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, they gathered outside the cordon to point at the corpse and whispered, with a look of disgust on their faces, and even seemed to be a little gloating.

The reason why I specifically asked this police officer to take a video is because I don't want to have direct contact with too many people related to the murder, especially when there are reporters present, but I want to clearly see the emotional tension that erupts at the scene when the family confronts the corpse, and judge something from it.

And I know that the little policeman has a lot of hobbies and talents in this area, and any video can be like a movie, with panoramic views, medium shots and close-ups, and knowing when and where to put the camera can save me a lot of effort and time.